如何绘制此时间序列？

Question

I am trying to plot this time series in a chart, but the canvas is empty.

As you can see in the image above, my time series is quite simple. I want to plot DATE in x-axis and PAYEMS in the y-axis.

At first, I was getting an error because my dates were strings, so I converted it in cell 11.

Answer 1

You do not want to use a tsplot to plot a time series. The name is a bit confusing, but as the documentation puts it, tsplot is "intended to be used with data where observations are nested within sampling units that were measured at multiple timepoints" . As a rule of thumb: If you understand this sentence, you will know when to use it, if you don't understand this sentence, don't use it. Apart, tsplot will even be removed or significantly altered in the future, so its use is deprecated.

But that doesn't matter, because you can directly use pandas to plot the time series.

df.plot(x="Date", y="Payems")