seaborn is not plotting within defined subplots
Question:
I am trying to plot two displots side by side with this code
fig,(ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2)
sns.displot(x =X_train['Age'], hue=y_train, ax=ax1)
sns.displot(x =X_train['Fare'], hue=y_train, ax=ax2)
It returns the following result (two empty subplots followed by one displot each on two lines)-
If I try the same code with violinplot, it returns result as expected
fig,(ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2)
sns.violinplot(y_train, X_train['Age'], ax=ax1)
sns.violinplot(y_train, X_train['Fare'], ax=ax2)
Why is displot returning a different kind of output and what can I do to output two plots on the same line?
Answers:
seaborn.distplot has been DEPRECATED in seaborn 0.11 and is replaced with the following:
displot(), a figure-level function with a similar flexibility over the kind of plot to draw. This is a FacetGrid, and does not have the ax parameter, so it will not work with matplotlib.pyplot.subplots.histplot(), an axes-level function for plotting histograms, including with kernel density smoothing. This does have the ax parameter, so it will work with matplotlib.pyplot.subplots.
- It is applicable to any of the
seaborn FacetGrid plots that there is no ax parameter. Use the equivalent axes-level plot.
- Look at the documentation for the figure-level plot to find the appropriate axes-level plot function for your needs.
- See Figure-level vs. axes-level functions
- Because the histogram of two different columns is desired, it’s easier to use
histplot.
- See How to plot in multiple subplots for a number of different ways to plot into
maplotlib.pyplot.subplots
- Also review seaborn histplot and displot output doesn’t match
- Tested in
seaborn 0.11.1 & matplotlib 3.4.2
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2)
sns.histplot(x=X_train['Age'], hue=y_train, ax=ax1)
sns.histplot(x=X_train['Fare'], hue=y_train, ax=ax2)
Imports and DataFrame Sample
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# load data
penguins = sns.load_dataset("penguins", cache=False)
# display(penguins.head())
species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g sex
0 Adelie Torgersen 39.1 18.7 181.0 3750.0 MALE
1 Adelie Torgersen 39.5 17.4 186.0 3800.0 FEMALE
2 Adelie Torgersen 40.3 18.0 195.0 3250.0 FEMALE
3 Adelie Torgersen NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
4 Adelie Torgersen 36.7 19.3 193.0 3450.0 FEMALE
Axes Level Plot
- With the data in a wide format, use
sns.histplot
# select the columns to be plotted
cols = ['bill_length_mm', 'bill_depth_mm']
# create the figure and axes
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2)
axes = axes.ravel() # flattening the array makes indexing easier
for col, ax in zip(cols, axes):
sns.histplot(data=penguins[col], kde=True, stat='density', ax=ax)
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Figure Level Plot
- With the dataframe in a long format, use
displot
# create a long dataframe
dfl = penguins.melt(id_vars='species', value_vars=['bill_length_mm', 'bill_depth_mm'], var_name='bill_size', value_name='vals')
# display(dfl.head())
species bill_size vals
0 Adelie bill_length_mm 39.1
1 Adelie bill_depth_mm 18.7
2 Adelie bill_length_mm 39.5
3 Adelie bill_depth_mm 17.4
4 Adelie bill_length_mm 40.3
# plot
sns.displot(data=dfl, x='vals', col='bill_size', kde=True, stat='density', common_bins=False, common_norm=False, height=4, facet_kws={'sharey': False, 'sharex': False})
Multiple DataFrames
- If there are multiple dataframes, they can be combined with
pd.concat, and use .assign to create an identifying 'source' column, which can be used for row=, col=, or hue=
# list of dataframe
lod = [df1, df2, df3]
# create one dataframe with a new 'source' column to use for row, col, or hue
df = pd.concat((d.assign(source=f'df{i}') for i, d in enumerate(lod, 1)), ignore_index=True)
- See Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame to read multiple files into a single dataframe with an identifying column.
I am trying to plot two displots side by side with this code
fig,(ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2)
sns.displot(x =X_train['Age'], hue=y_train, ax=ax1)
sns.displot(x =X_train['Fare'], hue=y_train, ax=ax2)
It returns the following result (two empty subplots followed by one displot each on two lines)-
If I try the same code with violinplot, it returns result as expected
fig,(ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2)
sns.violinplot(y_train, X_train['Age'], ax=ax1)
sns.violinplot(y_train, X_train['Fare'], ax=ax2)
Why is displot returning a different kind of output and what can I do to output two plots on the same line?
seaborn.distplothas beenDEPRECATEDinseaborn 0.11and is replaced with the following:displot(), a figure-level function with a similar flexibility over the kind of plot to draw. This is aFacetGrid, and does not have theaxparameter, so it will not work withmatplotlib.pyplot.subplots.histplot(), an axes-level function for plotting histograms, including with kernel density smoothing. This does have theaxparameter, so it will work withmatplotlib.pyplot.subplots.
- It is applicable to any of the
seabornFacetGridplots that there is noaxparameter. Use the equivalent axes-level plot.- Look at the documentation for the figure-level plot to find the appropriate axes-level plot function for your needs.
- See Figure-level vs. axes-level functions
- Because the histogram of two different columns is desired, it’s easier to use
histplot. - See How to plot in multiple subplots for a number of different ways to plot into
maplotlib.pyplot.subplots - Also review seaborn histplot and displot output doesn’t match
- Tested in
seaborn 0.11.1&matplotlib 3.4.2
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2)
sns.histplot(x=X_train['Age'], hue=y_train, ax=ax1)
sns.histplot(x=X_train['Fare'], hue=y_train, ax=ax2)
Imports and DataFrame Sample
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# load data
penguins = sns.load_dataset("penguins", cache=False)
# display(penguins.head())
species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g sex
0 Adelie Torgersen 39.1 18.7 181.0 3750.0 MALE
1 Adelie Torgersen 39.5 17.4 186.0 3800.0 FEMALE
2 Adelie Torgersen 40.3 18.0 195.0 3250.0 FEMALE
3 Adelie Torgersen NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
4 Adelie Torgersen 36.7 19.3 193.0 3450.0 FEMALE
Axes Level Plot
- With the data in a wide format, use
sns.histplot
# select the columns to be plotted
cols = ['bill_length_mm', 'bill_depth_mm']
# create the figure and axes
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2)
axes = axes.ravel() # flattening the array makes indexing easier
for col, ax in zip(cols, axes):
sns.histplot(data=penguins[col], kde=True, stat='density', ax=ax)
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Figure Level Plot
- With the dataframe in a long format, use
displot
# create a long dataframe
dfl = penguins.melt(id_vars='species', value_vars=['bill_length_mm', 'bill_depth_mm'], var_name='bill_size', value_name='vals')
# display(dfl.head())
species bill_size vals
0 Adelie bill_length_mm 39.1
1 Adelie bill_depth_mm 18.7
2 Adelie bill_length_mm 39.5
3 Adelie bill_depth_mm 17.4
4 Adelie bill_length_mm 40.3
# plot
sns.displot(data=dfl, x='vals', col='bill_size', kde=True, stat='density', common_bins=False, common_norm=False, height=4, facet_kws={'sharey': False, 'sharex': False})
Multiple DataFrames
- If there are multiple dataframes, they can be combined with
pd.concat, and use.assignto create an identifying'source'column, which can be used forrow=,col=, orhue=
# list of dataframe
lod = [df1, df2, df3]
# create one dataframe with a new 'source' column to use for row, col, or hue
df = pd.concat((d.assign(source=f'df{i}') for i, d in enumerate(lod, 1)), ignore_index=True)
- See Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame to read multiple files into a single dataframe with an identifying column.