matplotlib 3d scatter plot date

Question

I have a list of dates in format 15/10/2017

I have tried the following

from matplotlib import pyplot
import pandas as pd

dates = [\'15/         


        

Answer 1

It's not always trivial to tell matplotlib how to translate strings into a coordinate system. Why not simply set custom tick labels for the axes?

import pandas as pd
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure('scatter dates')
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
dates = ['15/10/2016', '16/10/2016', "17/10/2015", "15/10/2014"]
dates_formatted = [pd.to_datetime(d) for d in dates ]
x = [1,2,3,4]
y = [9,10,11,12]
z = [5,6,7,8]

ax.scatter(x, y, z)
ax.xaxis.set_ticks(x)
ax.xaxis.set_ticklabels(dates_formatted)
plt.show()