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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"scatterplot axis autoscale fails for small data values","articleBody":"I'm finding that the scatterplot autoscaling fails when plotting small values, e.g. \u003c0.001.\n\nThe autoscale axis range will never go below -0.008 to 0.008 for me, regardless of how small the range of the data being plotted.\n\n```\nplt.figure()\nx = np.array([0,1,2,3])\nx = np.array([2,4,5,9])\nplt.scatter(x,y)\n```\n\nData in a normal range produces\n![properly_scaled](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/54182/13114875/6df15a58-d563-11e5-9655-3276b3b07196.png)\n\n```\nplt.figure()\nx = np.array([0,1,2,3])\nx = np.array([2,4,5,9])\nplt.scatter(x/10000,y/10000)\n```\n\nWhile scaling it down produces\n![badly_scaled](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/54182/13114872/6a557f82-d563-11e5-9ef1-93bd4f8bd4b3.png)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ariekahn","@type":"Person","name":"ariekahn"},"datePublished":"2016-02-17T15:56:24.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/6015/matplotlib/issues/6015"}