I have a Jupyter/IPython notebook with a graph.
I am using the following code to display the graph, while keeping the aspect ratio square so the graph does not get distorted.
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.set_aspect('equal')
ax.plot(x,y)
This works, but I want to scale the graph so its width takes up the entire width of the notebook page. How can I do this?
You need to set proper (width,height) of figsize:
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import sys
# Plot a random line that fill whole width of the cell in jupyter notebook
# need ranges of x, y to get proper (width, height) of figure
x = np.random.randn(5) # prep data to plot
y = np.random.randn(5)
xmin,xmax = min(x),max(x)
ymin,ymax = min(y),max(y)
yox = None
if (xmax-xmin)!=0:
yox = (ymax-ymin)/(xmax-xmin)
# set number that should spans cell's width
pwidth = 20 # inches
if yox>1.0:
# tall figure
width, height = pwidth, pwidth*yox
elif yox==1.0:
width, height = pwidth, pwidth
elif yox<1.0:
# wide figure
width, height = pwidth*yox, pwidth
if width<pwidth:
height = height/width*pwidth
width = pwidth
else:
sys.exit
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(width, height)) # specify (width,height) in inches
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.set_aspect('equal') # preserve aspect ratio
ax.plot( x, y ) # should fill width of notenook cell
plt.show()
