example: https://www.wakari.io/sharing/bundle/adamgreenhall/test-scatter I think this happens specifically for pandas scatter plots with colorbars in ipython. The xticks are still working for: - non-colorbar pandas scatter plots - the same scatter plot using matplotlib - standard python scripts using `plt.savefig` related problem with `%matplotlib inline`?: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1443/