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Abdelgha-4 opened this issue May 6, 2025 · 1 comment
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BUG: Slower DataFrame.plot with DatetimeIndex #61398

Abdelgha-4 opened this issue May 6, 2025 · 1 comment
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Datetime Datetime data dtype Performance Memory or execution speed performance Visualization plotting

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Abdelgha-4 commented May 6, 2025 •
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Reproducible Example

# Imports & data generation
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

num_rows = 500
num_cols = 2000

index = pd.date_range(start="2020-01-01", periods=num_rows, freq="D")
test_df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(num_rows, num_cols).cumsum(axis=0), index=index)


# Very Slow plot (1m 11.6s)
test_df.plot(legend=False, figsize=(12, 8))
plt.show()


# Much faster Plot using this workaround: (6.1s)

# 1. Plot a single column with dates to copy the right ticks
ax1 = test_df.iloc[:, 0].plot(figsize=(12, 6), legend=False)
xticks = ax1.get_xticks()
xticklabels = [label.get_text() for label in ax1.get_xticklabels()]
plt.close(ax1.figure)

# 2. Faster plot with no date index
ax2 = test_df.reset_index(drop=True).plot(legend=False, figsize=(12, 8))
# 3. Inject the date X axis info
num_ticks = len(xticks)
new_xticks = np.linspace(0, num_rows - 1, num_ticks)
ax2.set_xlim(0, num_rows - 1)
ax2.set_xticks(new_xticks)
ax2.set_xticklabels(xticklabels)
plt.show()

Issue Description

Plotting a large DataFrame with a DatetimeIndex and many rows and columns results in extremely slow rendering times. This issue can be surprisingly mitigated by first plotting a single column to generate the correct ticks and labels, then resetting the index and copying the ticks to plot the full DataFrame, gaining +11x speed improvement. This may suggests that a similar logic may be applied (if found consistent) to improve speed when applied.

Expected Behavior

No big difference in ploting time depending on the index type, especially if avoidable with the trick above.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : d9cdd2e
python : 3.12.4.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.19045
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : fr_FR.cp1252

pandas : 2.2.2
numpy : 2.0.1
pytz : 2024.1
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
setuptools : 75.3.0
pip : 25.0.1
Cython : None
pytest : 8.3.3
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 5.3.0
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.4
IPython : 8.26.0
pandas_datareader : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.12.3
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.9.2
numba : None
numexpr : 2.10.1
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.1.5
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 17.0.0
pyreadstat : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.14.1
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2024.1
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None
@Abdelgha-4 Abdelgha-4 added Bug Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels May 6, 2025
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Thanks for the report, confirmed on main. Further investigations and PRs to fix are welcome!

@rhshadrach rhshadrach added Visualization plotting Performance Memory or execution speed performance Datetime Datetime data dtype and removed Bug Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels May 7, 2025
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