Changing labels in matplotlib polar plot

Question

I am using matplotlib to create polar plots to represent Rose Diagrams. Right now the plot is getting created perfectly. I want to replace the angles being displayed on the

Answer 1

Assuming that you have an axes object ax you can do simply do something like this

ax.set_xticklabels(['N', '', 'W', '', 'S', '', 'E', ''])

or get some inspiration by this old example