Adding text on your plots

This section describes how we can add text to both the axis and figure objects, including adding text in multi-panel figures and configuring the appearance of text.

Adding text to both axis and figure objects

Let's start by importing everything we need:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
# Set up figure size and DPI for screen demo
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (6,4)
plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 150

1. Next, bring up the standard sine curve that we have been using:

# Add some text
nums = np.arange(0,10,0.1)
plt.plot(nums, np.sin(nums))

We will get the following output:

2. We will add some text, say, right in the middle...