Wrap Graph Labels in Matplotlib

Overlapping text labels on the x-axis is a common challenge during visualizations. To mitigate, we can rotate the labels by an angle to create more space, implement text wrapping for multi-line visibility, or combine both:

Code

import textwrap
def wrap_labels(ax, width, break_long_words=False):
    labels = []
    for label in ax.get_xticklabels():
        text = label.get_text()
        labels.append(textwrap.fill(text, width=width,
                                    break_long_words=break_long_words))
    ax.set_xticklabels(labels, rotation=30) # Change the rotation to suit preferences.

This provides clearer visualizations of our data.

Plots

Before Text Wrap	After Text Wrap