Re: [OT] How to plot time series over weekly / monthly data

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On 2020-07-28 14:30, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> its a bit off topic here but I hope to get some links.  For my talk at
> DebConf Online I want to analyse contributions on a monthly or weekly
> base and plot graphs (either with gnuplot or R - whatever I can find an
> easier solution with).  I can generate the data from a postgresql
> database in whatever sensible input format is needed.  I failed to
> seek successfully for examples for plotting integer numbers over months
> or weeks of several years.
>
> Any hints?


Haven't run it myself, but matplotlib has plot_date()
https://saralgyaan.com/posts/plot-time-series-in-python-matplotlib-tutorial-chapter-8/
https://preinventedwheel.com/easy-python-time-series-plots-with-matplotlib/

Pandas might make it easier still,
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.13/visualization.html

Pandas is awesome for handling real-world data (including gappy data 
points)

Drew