Make pandas plot() show xlabel and xvalues

Question

I am using the standard pandas.df.plot() function to plot two columns in a dataframe. For some reason, the x-axis values and the xlabel are not visible! There seem

Answer 1

Create your axes instance first and then send it as an argument to the plot()

import matplotlib.cm as cm
import pandas as pd


X = np.random.rand(10,3)
df = pd.DataFrame(X,columns=['t','hlReference', 'STEP_STRENGTH'])
fig,ax1=plt.subplots()
df.plot.scatter(x='t', y='hlReference', c='STEP_STRENGTH', cmap=cm.autumn,ax=ax1)