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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:33:01+00:00

I am trying to plot the following numbers on a log scale as a

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I am trying to plot the following numbers on a log scale as a scatter plot in matplotlib. Both the quantities on the x and y axes have very different scales, and one of the variables has a huge dynamic range (nearly 0 to 12 million roughly) while the other is between nearly 0 and 2. I think it might be good to plot both on a log scale.

I tried the following, for a subset of the values of the two variables:

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
ax.set_yscale('log')
ax.set_xscale('log')
plt.scatter([1.341, 0.1034, 0.6076, 1.4278, 0.0374],
        [0.37, 0.12, 0.22, 0.4, 0.08])

The x-axes appear log scaled but the points do not appear — only two points appear. Any idea how to fix this? Also, how can I make this log scale appear on a square axes, so that the correlation between the two variables can be interpreted from the scatter plot?

thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know why you only get those two points. For this case, you can manually adjust the limits to make sure all your points fit. I ran:

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8)) # You were missing the =
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
ax.set_yscale('log')
ax.set_xscale('log')
plt.scatter([1.341, 0.1034, 0.6076, 1.4278, 0.0374],
        [0.37, 0.12, 0.22, 0.4, 0.08])
plt.xlim(0.01, 10) # Fix the x limits to fit all the points
plt.show()

    I’m not sure I understand understand what “Also, how can I make this log scale appear on a square axes, so that the correlation between the two variables can be interpreted from the scatter plot?” means. Perhaps someone else will understand, or maybe you can clarify?

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