Matplotlib Tutorial 17 - annotations and placing text

In this tutorial, we're going to be talking about how we add text to Matplotlib graphs. We can do this in two ways. One is to just place text to a location on the graph. Another is to specifically annotate a plot on the chart to draw attention to it.

[david]

I like how you arrange your tutorials into easily digestible bite size chunks. Good job mate.

[joycewei]

Have been looking for solutions to annotating with arrows, and this is exactly what I need. Your tutorials are well-organized and readable, and I binge-watched your other matplotlib tutorials in one sitting. Yeah, they are THAT good.

[tymothylim]

Thank you friend! I enjoy seeing code examples done by you.

[quynhvo]

You saved my day! Your coffee is on me if we ever met!

[TheXeriatos]

Very easy to understand your great content!

[__-yuvi]

There is no link in description and code on the site is broken, because it references dead Yahoo api and `matplotlib.finance` which no longer exists

[Ashok-oelo]

lov your tutorials...thank you very much...

[itzHD]

Could you please do mouseover annotations?

[LrdKGB]

Hi, I am pulling data from an API and trying to animate a live graph like in video 16 of your tutorial. So I am getting the data within the animate function then save the results in a dictionary that I then plot just like in the tutorial. However it only generate a graph once without animating it, thus refreshing it with the data from the API. I'm trying to make a depth chart by using a stack plot chart and rounding up the book to make it look good. Any ideas on how I can make this work? Thanks a lot for your work, it is really appreciated.

[wilsoncarofilis]

I copied the code from the link provided but I get "" ImportError: cannot import name 'Line2D' "". How can I fixt this problem?

[praveenps]

Is it possible to draw horizontal lines at predefined price levels on candle stick charts

[pran]

Specifying (x, y) coordinates (date[10], closep[5]) does not work for me? What to do?

What I did is (dt.datetime(2017, 9, 19), 217) seeing the values from plot. Then it worked.

[rishabhjhaveri]

Hey Harrison,
I have a question. I have two lists.
names = [PG, PG-13, R, NC, G]
ratings = [125, 256, 547, 311, 478]
I need a plot where x axis has the names and y axis the count of these ratings.
Help will be appreciated thanks!

[Jim]

Hi I am making a trading bot. How would I place the buys and sell on the chart please?

[kamilziemian]

This is bad way of using arrowprops
arrowprops=dict(facecolor='red', color='grey')
because facecolor is first set to read and after that color of all parts of arrow, facecolor included, is set to 'grey'. This is why Python sends warning.
I use line
arrowprops=dict(color='grey')
and it works fine, like in the video.

[rodrigokk]

This code for placing text is too specific for this problem. But thanks for the initiative.

[kamilziemian]

Again, this my by wrongheaded hairsplitting. I think this video title should be "Matplotlib Tutorial 17 - Annotations and placing text".

[msduff]

I get an error " TypeError: __init__() got multiple values for argument 'xytext' " when I run this code any ideas why?