如何使这张图表更易于阅读？

Question

I want to know how to get my x axis labels to display bigger so that the team labels aren't overlapping. I'm sure it's just a matter of configuring the chart size

My code:

plt.plot(prem_data.Team, prem_data.attack_scored,'o')
plt.plot(prem_data.Team, prem_data.defence_saves)

plt.xlabel("Team")
plt.ylabel("Attack goals scored & Defence tackles") 
plt.legend(["attack scored", "defence saved"])


plt.show()

Answer 1

I can imagine there being two mutually non-exclusive solutions.

1. Directly alter the size of the font. This can be achieved via calling plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': <font_size>}) , assuming that you have imported matplotlib.pyplot under the alias plt , as you have done in the source code provided. You would probably want to set the <font_size> to be small to prevent overlapping labels, but this would require some experimentation.

2. Increase the size of the figure. This can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the simplest method you can implement with minimal edits to your current code would be to use the command plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = <fig_size> where <fig_size> is a tuple specifying the size of the figure in inches, such as (10, 5) .

With some trial and error, you should be able to manipulate the size of the font and the figure to produce a plot with improved readability.

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Note: The method for altering figure size I introduced above is not the most conventional way to go about this problem. Instead, it is much more common to use matplotlib.pyplot.figure or similar variants. For more information, I recommend that you check out this thread and the documentation .