Sharing A Yaxis Label With Two Of Three Subplots In Pyplot

I have the following code which produces the plot shown. mport matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec import numpy as np One = range(1,10) Two = range(5,

Solution 1:

The best way I can think of is to add the text to the figure itself and position it at the center (figure coordinates of 0.5) like so

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec
import numpy as np

One = range(1,10)
Two = range(5, 14)
l = len(One)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))
gs = gridspec.GridSpec(3, 1, height_ratios=[5, 3, 3])

ax0 = plt.subplot(gs[0])
ax0.bar(range(l), Two)

ax1 = plt.subplot(gs[1], sharey=ax0)
ax1.bar(range(l), Two)

ax2 =  plt.subplot(gs[2])
ax2.bar(range(l), One)

fig.text(0.075, 0.5, "Number of occurrence", rotation="vertical", va="center")

plt.show()

Solution 2:

You can also adjust the position manually, using the y parameter of ylabel:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec
import numpy as np

One = range(1,10)
Two = range(5, 14) 
l = len(One)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))
gs = gridspec.GridSpec(3, 1, height_ratios=[5, 3, 3]) 

ax0 = plt.subplot(gs[0])
ax0.bar(range(l), Two)
plt.ylabel("Number of occurrence", y=-0.8)          ##  ← ← ← HERE

ax1 = plt.subplot(gs[1], sharey=ax0)
ax1.bar(range(l), Two)

ax2 =  plt.subplot(gs[2])
ax2.bar(range(l), One)

plt.show()

Solution 3:

I think this question is more of creating multiple-axis if said in the right terms. I would like to point you to the question I asked and the answer I received which gives you the solution to create multiple-axis for the plot.

Link to the similar problem solution in Matplotlib: Using Multiple Axis

Link to the other related question is:multiple axis in matplotlib with different scales

Solution 4:

not a very sophisticated solution, but would this work? Replace

plt.ylabel("Number of occurrence")

with

plt.ylabel("Number of occurrence", verticalalignment = 'top')

[edit]

for my version of 64 bit python (2.7.3) I needed to make a small change

plt.ylabel("Number of occurrence", horizontalalignment = 'right')

here's what it looks like to me, is this not what you want?