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Matplotlib plot plotting the wrong data values

I am trying to plot random rows in a dataset, where the data consists of data collated across different dates. I have plotted it in such a way that the x-axis is labelled for the specific dates, and there is no interpolation between dates.
The issue I am having, is that the values plotted by matplotlib, do not match the entry values in the dataset. I am unsure as to what is happening here, would anyone be able to provide some insight, and possibly as to how I would fix it?
I have attached an image of the dataset and the plot, with the code contained below.
The code for generating the x-ticks, is as follows:
In: #creating a flat dates object such that dates are integer objects
flat_Dates_dates = flat_Dates[2:7]
flat_Dates_dates
Out: [20220620, 20220624, 20220627, 20220701, 20220708]
In: #creating datetime object(pandas, not datetime module) to only plot specific dates and remove interpolation of dates
date_obj_pd = pd.to_datetime(flat_Dates_dates, format=("%Y%m%d"))
Out: DatetimeIndex(['2022-06-20', '2022-06-24', '2022-06-27', '2022-07-01',
'2022-07-08'],
dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq=None)
As you can see from the dataset, the plotted trends should not take that form, the data values are wildly different from where they should be on the graph.
Edit: Apologies, I forgot to mention x = date_obj_pd - which is why I added the code, essentially just the array of datetime objects.
y is just the name of the pandas DataFrame (data table) I have included in the image.

You are plotting columns instead of rows. The blue line contains elements 1:7 from the first column, namely these:
If you transpose the dataframe you should get the desired result:
plt.plot(x, y[1:7].transpose(), 'o--')

Which parts of my dataframe are being plotted?

The goal is to plot the data frame I'm working with on a single chart, with a line for each value of init_population where the y-axis is count and x-axis is tick_number.
I've figured out how to use groupby() and plot() together to make this:
As you can see, all the lines are there nicely, but I'm pretty confident that the blue at the top that doesn't follow the relationship the other lines are following is actually a different column of data.
So that this is reproducible, the data is available here.
import pandas as pd
max_runs_data = pd.read_csv('clean_table.csv')
del max_runs_data['visualization']
max_runs_data.columns = ['run_number','init_population', 'tick', 'turtle_count']
max_runs_data.set_index('tick', inplace = True)
test_plot_1 = max_runs_data.groupby('init_population')['turtle_count'].plot()
test_plot_2 = max_runs_data.groupby('init_population').plot(y='turtle_count')
test_plot_1 is the linked image, test_plot_2 is a separate plot for each group.
Is it obvious how to specify the columns for x and y without losing the grouping on a single chart?
Thanks

Python plot lines with specific x values from numpy

I have a situation with a bunch of datafiles, these datafiles have a number of samples in a given time frame that depends on the system. i.e. At time t=1 for instance I might have a file with 10 items, or 20 items, at later times in that file I will always have the same number of items. The format is time, x, y, z in columns, and loaded into a numpy array. The time values show which frame, but as mentioned there's always the same, let's go with 10 as a sample. So I'll have a (10,4) numpy array where the time values are identical, but there are many frames in the file, so lets say 100 frames, so really I have (1000,4). I want to plot the data with time on the x-axis and manipulations of the other data on the y, but I am unsure how to do this with line plot methods in matplotlib. Normally to provide both x,y values I believe I need to do a scatter plot, so I'm hoping there's a better way to do this. What I ideally want is to treat each line that has the same time code as a different series (so it will colour differently), and the next bit of data for that same line number in the next frame (time value) will be labelled the same colour, giving those good contiguous lines. We can look at the time column and figure out how many items share a time code, let's call it "n". Sample code:
a = numpy.loadtxt('sampledata.txt')
plt.plot(a[:0,:,n],a[:1,:1])
plt.show()
I think this code expresses what I'm going for, though it doesn't work.

Edit:
I hope this is what you wanted.
seaborn scatterplot can categorize data to some groups which have the same codes (time code in this case) and use the same colors to them.
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
df = pd.read_csv(r"E:\Programming\Python\Matplotlib\timecodes.csv",
names=["time","x","y","z","code"]) #use your file
df["time"]=pd.to_datetime(df["time"]) #recognize the data as Time
df["x"]=df["time"].dt.day # I changed the data into "Date only" and imported to x column. Easier to see on graph.
#just used random numbers in y and z in my data.
sns.scatterplot("x", "y", data = df, hue = "code") #hue does the grouping
plt.show()
I used csv file here but you can do to your text file as well by adding sep="\t" in the argument. I also added a code in the file. If you have it the code can group the data in the graph, so you don't have to separate or make a hierarchical index. If you want to change colors or grouping please see seaborn website.
Hope this helps.

Alternative, the method I used, but Tim's answer is still accurate as well. Since the time codes are not date/time information I modified my own code to add tags as a second column I call "p" (they're polymers).
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
datain = np.loadtxt('somefile.txt')
df = pd.DataFrame(data = datain, columns = ["t","p","x","y","z"])
ax = sns.scatterplot("t","x", data = df, hue = "p")
plt.show()
And of course the other columns can be plotted similarly if desired.

Python scatterplot design - select specific values of a variable for the x axis based on another columns values

I am relatively new to python and am currently trying to generate a scatterplot based off of some data using pandas & seaborn.
The data I'm using ('ErrorMedianScatter') is as follows (apologies for the link, I have yet to get permissions to embed images!):
Image of data
Each participant has two data points of interest. The mean when MissingLimb = 0 or 1
I want to create a scatterplot for participants where the x-axis represents their value for 'mean' when 'MissingLimb' = 0, and the y-axis represents their value for 'mean' when 'MissingLimb' = 1.
I am using the current code so far to create a scatterplot:
sns.lmplot(("mean",
"mean",
data=ErrorMedianScatter,
fit_reg=False,
hue="participant")
This generates a perfectly functional, but very uninteresting, scatterplot. What I'm stuck on is creating an x-/y-axis variable that allows for me to specify that I'm interested in the mean of a participant based on the value of 'MissingLimb' column.
Many thanks in advance!

There are most likely multiple ways to solve your problem. The method I'd take is to first transform you dataset in such a way that there is a single row (observation) for each participant, and where (for each row) there is one column that reports the means where MissingLimb is 0 and another column that reports the means where MissingLimb is 1.
You can accomplish this data transformation with this code:
df = pd.pivot_table(ErrorMedianScatter,
values='mean',
index='participant',
columns='MissingLimb')
df.columns = ['MissingLimb 0', 'MissingLimb 1']
You can then use this (transformed) dataframe to create the scatterplot:
sns.lmplot(data=df, x='MissingLimb 0', y='MissingLimb 1')
Notice that in addition to specifying the data to plot (using the data parameter), I also specified the data to plot on the x- and y-axis (using the x and y parameters, respectively). You can add additional arguments to the sns.lmplot call and customize the plot to your specifications.

Heatmap with specific axis labels coloured

I am trying to plot a heatmap with 2 columns of data from a pandas dataframe. However, I would like to use a 3rd column to label the x axis, ideally by colour though another method such as an additional axis would be equally suitable. My dataframe is:
MUT SAMPLE VAR GROUP
True s1 1_1334442_T CC002
True s2 1_1334442_T CC006
True s1 1_1480354_GAC CC002
True s2 1_1480355_C CC006
True s2 1_1653038_C CC006
True s3 1_1730932_G CC002
...
Just to give a better idea of the data; there are 9 different types of 'GROUP', ~60,000 types of 'VAR' and 540 'SAMPLE's. I am not sure if this is the best way to build a heatmap in python but here is what I figured out so far:
pivot = pd.crosstab(df_all['VAR'],df_all['SAMPLE'])
sns.set(font_scale=0.4)
g = sns.clustermap(pivot, row_cluster=False, yticklabels=False, linewidths=0.1, cmap="YlGnBu", cbar=False)
plt.show()
I am not sure how to get 'GROUP' to display along the x-axis, either as an additional axis or just colouring the axis labels? Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm not sure if the 'MUT' column being a boolean variable is an issue here, df_all is 'TRUE' on every 'VAR' but as pivot is made, any samples which do not have a particular 'VAR' are filled as 0, others are filled with 1. My aim was to try and cluster samples with similar 'VAR' profiles. I hope this helps.
Please let me know if I can clarify anything further? Many thanks

Take look at this example. You can give a list or a dataframe column to the clustermap function. By specifying either the col_colors argument or the row_colors argument you can give colours to either the rows or the columns based on that list.
In the example below I use the iris dataset and make a pandas series object that specifies which colour the specific row should have. That pandas series is given as an argument for row_colors.
iris = sns.load_dataset("iris")
species = iris.pop("species")
lut = dict(zip(species.unique(), "rbg"))
row_colors = species.map(lut)
g = sns.clustermap(iris, row_colors=row_colors,row_cluster=False)
This code results in the following image.
You may need to tweak a bit further to also include a legend for the colouring for groups.