X axis in Matplotlib print random numbers instead of the years

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Im new in this Pandas and Matplotlib, I follow an example from a book and apparently it give me a warning

"MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The epoch2num function was deprecated in Matplotlib 3.3 and will be removed two minor releases later. base = dates.epoch2num(dt.asi8 / 1.0e9)"

and the X value of axis change from years to some random numbers

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pandas_datareader import data

AMZ = data.DataReader('AMZN', start='2011', end='2018', data_source='yahoo')
AMZ = AMZ['Close']

AMZ.plot()
AMZ.resample('BA').mean().plot(style=':')
AMZ.asfreq('BA').plot(style='--')

plt.show()

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3 Answers

This was caused by a temporary bad interaction between Matplotlib and Pandas and is fixed in both projects.

To work around until the new versions are available:

plt.rcParams['date.epoch'] = '0000-12-31'

I ran your code and the axis shows the correct years. The problem is not coming from the code you posted here.

graph

enter image description here

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pandas_datareader import data


AMZ = data.DataReader('AMZN', start='2011', end='2018', data_source='yahoo')

AMZ = AMZ['Close']

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(16, 9))

plt.plot(AMZ.index, AMZ, label='AMZ')
plt.plot(AMZ.resample('BA').mean().index, AMZ.resample('BA').mean(), label='resample', linestyle=':')
plt.plot(AMZ.asfreq('BA').index, AMZ.asfreq('BA'), label='asfreq', linestyle='--')

ax.set_xlabel('Date')

plt.show()

This should work like a charm

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