Customizing ticks and ticklabels

So far, we have seen Matplotlib automatically placing ticks and ticklabels based on input data. In this recipe, we will learn how to customize these default settings on both the x and y axes for categorical and numerical variables.

Getting ready

Let's import the required libraries:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import (MultipleLocator, FormatStrFormatter, 
                               AutoMinorLocator)
from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter

How to do it...

The following code blocks plot...