X-axis tick labels are too dense when drawing plots

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A quick dirty solution would be the following:

ax.set_xticks(ax.get_xticks()[::2])

This would only display every second xtick. If you wanted to only display every n-th tick you would use

ax.set_xticks(ax.get_xticks()[::n])

If you don’t have a handle on ax you can get one as ax = plt.gca().

Alternatively, you could specify the number of xticks to use with:

plt.locator_params(axis="x", nbins=10)

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