How to add a shared x-label and y-label to a plot created with pandas' plot?

Question

One can create subplots easily from a dataframe using pandas:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df = pd.DataFrame({\'A\': [0.3, 0.2, 0.5, 0.2]         


        

Answer 1

Another solution: create a big subplot and then set the common labels. Here is what I got.

The source code is below.

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
axarr = fig.add_subplot(221)   

df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [0.3, 0.2, 0.5, 0.2], 'B': [0.1, 0.0, 0.3, 0.1], 'C': [0.2, 0.5, 0.0, 0.7], 'D': [0.6, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6]}, index=list('abcd'))
axes = df.plot(kind="bar", ax=axarr, subplots=True, layout=(2, 2), sharey=True, sharex=True, rot=0, fontsize=20)

# Create a big subplot
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, frameon=False)
# hide tick and tick label of the big axes
plt.tick_params(labelcolor='none', top='off', bottom='off', left='off', right='off')

ax.set_xlabel('my_general_xlabel', labelpad=10) # Use argument `labelpad` to move label downwards.
ax.set_ylabel('my_general_ylabel', labelpad=20)

plt.show()