I wish to plot a pandas time-series object data
with matplotlib. For a simple line chart data.plot()
, I was able to successfully change the x-axis date format with ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(md.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
.
However, I am not able to do the same for a bar chart data.plot(kind='bar')
. And the chart wouldn't appear. Is there a way to change data format for pandas bar chart? I know I can create a chart with plt.bar method, but I need to use pandas stacked bar chart for more complicated data.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as md
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import datetime as dt
import time
n=20
duration=1000
now=time.mktime(time.localtime())
timestamps=np.linspace(now,now+duration,n)
dates=[dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts) for ts in timestamps]
values=np.sin((timestamps-now)/duration*2*np.pi)
data=pd.Series(values, index=dates)
fig=figure(figsize(5,5))
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
data.plot(kind='bar')
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(md.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))