Plotting methods (line, area, ..) don't handle string x values · Issue #22334 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

From #22307 (review): when specifying the x labels in one of our plotting calls where this consists of strings, nothing is shown on the x labels:

In [6]: df = pd.DataFrame({'sales': [3, 2, 3],
   ...:                    'visits': [20, 42, 28],
   ...:                    'day': ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday']})

In [7]: ax = df.plot.area(x='day')

The same is true for line plot, for bar plot it does work.

Related to #18687 (but not exactly the same), and potentially #18726. I would have expected that there is already an issue for this, but didn't directly find it.