{"issue":{"state":"open","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"html_url":null,"patch_url":null},"milestone":null,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5619f20535689f016219f28bd43c1d88?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"5619f20535689f016219f28bd43c1d88","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jdborg","login":"jdborg","id":1198906},"labels":[],"assignee":null,"updated_at":"2011-11-16T16:19:59Z","comments":3,"closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/591","body":"This is just a question, rather that a bug submission:\r\n\r\nDoes this error mean I trying to plot too many points?\r\nRuntimeError: Locator attempting to generate 171560 ticks from -8575.1 to 2.85: exceeds Locator.MAXTICKS\r\n","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/591","number":591,"title":"exceeds Locator.MAXTICKS","id":2254024,"created_at":"2011-11-16T08:50:36Z"},"action":"created","comment":{"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/697900d3a29858ea20cc109a2aee0af6?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"697900d3a29858ea20cc109a2aee0af6","url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod","login":"WeatherGod","id":291576},"updated_at":"2011-11-16T16:19:59Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/comments/2762058","body":"No. Ticks are the little lines on the x and y axes that denote the ordinals.  For example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_demo.html has a tick at -0.2, 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0 on the x-axis (although the first and last ones are hidden by the plot box), and the y-axis has ticks at 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0.  These ticks are automatically labeled with the value they denote on their axis, although that can be replaced with any other sort of label (which is typically done for graphs such as bar graphs).\r\n\r\nCould you include your code so that I can see what might be wrong?","id":2762058,"created_at":"2011-11-16T16:19:59Z"}}