iregular data set

Thanks to all who replied.
I am not sure if I get this or if I am not clear on what I want. So I
am attaching a simple web page of what I want vs. what I get from
matplotlib.
Thanks again,
Joseph

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Bill Dandreta
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Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] iregular data set

Rodrigues, Joseph wrote:

I have a question (new user here): I have datasets of irregular time
spaced data and am having a problem with Matplot lib.

I am plotting two datasets: one is continuous time series data (simple
line chart) and the other irregular time series data.

The problem I have is: MatPlotLib is interpolating data for the
irregular data where there is no data.

So if I have data from 1985 - 1989 then no data for 1990 - 1994,
matplotlib is drawing a line connecting the missing data.

How does one plot irregular spaced time series data?

The way I do that is index the time data and plot against the index.

1985--0
1986--1
.
.
.
1989--4
1995--5
etc.

Bill

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Joseph,
I'm a big fan of masked arrays in numpy. Your problem is typically what masked
days are for: you can find an example here:
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Plotting_values_with_masked_arrays