Matplotlib 2.x By Example

Trying out the ticker locator and formatter

To demonstrate the ticker locator and formatter, here we use Netflix subscriber data as an example. Business performance is often measured seasonally. Television shows are even more "seasonal". Can we better show it in the timeline?

import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport matplotlib.ticker as ticker"""Number for Netflix streaming subscribers from 2012-2017Data were obtained from Statista on https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-of-netflix-streaming-subscribers-worldwide/ on May 10, 2017. The data were originally published by Netflix in April 2017."""# Prepare the data setx = range(2011,2018)y = [26.48,27.56,29.41,33.27,36.32,37.55,40.28,44.35,48.36,50.05,53.06,57.39,62.27,65.55,69.17,74.76,81.5, ...