Plotting with timedelta64 axis
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Description
Pandas plotting has nice handling of timedelta64 axes - xarray seems to just plot these as integer nanoseconds. Would be great to have this functionality in xarray:
data = xr.DataArray(np.random.random(100), coords=[('td', np.arange(np.timedelta64(0), np.timedelta64(10, 'h'), np.timedelta64(6, 'm')))])
data.plot.line(x='td')
plt.figure()
data.to_pandas().plot()
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Research direction
Start with the DataArray.plot.line call shown in the issue and compare its timedelta64-axis behavior with the pandas plotting example. The work is done when xarray plots timedelta64 coordinates with readable timedelta-aware axis handling instead of integer nanoseconds.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- matplotlib, numpy, pandas, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100