Pandas for Productivity vlog Ep1: Relabeling x-axis in Matplotlib

Welcome to the launch of the Pandas for Productivity vlog series! Here, I discuss the peskier data wrangling challenges that you may encounter. For my first episode, I show you how to relabel the x-axis on a stacked area time series chart in Matplotlib. Why this topic? Matplotlib has been inconsistent with plotting time-series data.

Plotting charts in Python vs. Excel: A Demo

We previously discussed here that plotting charts in Python is second priority for beginners. Indeed, Python’s matplotlib library is very useful for creating elegant charts from large data sets. However, you need to remember a lot of code to make it work well! Example: COVID-19 public data set We will use the COVID-19 Case Surveillance