Hi,
I'm trying to use plot_date to plot some USGS daily flow data. I seem to have hit a bug in the plotting where large spikes in data are not being plotted at all scales.
For example in the attached data file there is a spike in the flow that hits a maximum of 30700 on 1998-10-20. When plotted with the commands below this portion of the dataset does not show up. If I drag the plot window to make the x axis 2 to 3 times wider than normal there is point at which this data spike suddenly appears. This problem doesn't exist if I use a symbol like .,+ etc only with lines.
code:
08176500.zip (116 KB)
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import datetime
import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
qfile = '08176500.txt'
#q_file = qfile.split('.')[0].split('\\')[-1]
q_ts = np.genfromtxt(qfile,comments='#',dtype=None,usecols=(2,3),names='dates,discharge')
dt = np.array([datetime.date(year=int(date.split('-')[0]), month=int(date.split('-')[1]), day=int(date.split('-')[2])) for date in q_ts['dates']])
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot_date(mpl.dates.date2num(dt), q_ts['discharge'],'-')
plt.show()
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Any help is appreciated.
thanks,
- dharhas