I would like to plot a graph with the most recent dates on the left instead of the right of the x-axis.
Is there a way to do this in pandas and matplotlib and still get the date axis?
Invert an axis in a matplotlib grafic
shows how to do this for the y-axis using invert_yaxis(). However, this is not available for xaxis.
Set xlim() from pyplot. Let's take this example:
period = pd.period_range("1.1.2013","12.1.2013",freq="M")
data = np.arange(12)
s = pd.Series(data=data,index=period)
#Output
2013-01 0
2013-02 1
2013-03 2
2013-04 3
2013-05 4
2013-06 5
2013-07 6
2013-08 7
2013-09 8
2013-10 9
2013-11 10
2013-12 11
Set first value of xlim to be last index of series and second value to be the first index, like this:
s.plot()
plt.xlim(s.index[-1],s.index[0])
plt.show()
