
However if you want to plot something a bit more complicated then their showcase examples you get stuck tweaking the plots in matplotlib. However seaborn provides some nice defaults and supports the long data format. Personally I find pure matplotlib very cumbersome. sns.violinplot('variable', 'value', data = df_melt
Seaborn scatter plot with groups example code#
Having multiple plot as output from one code chunk in markdown is a bit tricky, in jupyter notebooks it is not.

Handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels() # get legend handles and labels before drawing legend # the boxes are drawn onto the axis as artist objects We can also fix the overlay plot from before # instantiate axis and figureĪx = sns.violinplot('variable', 'value', data = df_meltĪx = sns.boxplot('variable', 'value', data = df_melt sns.lmplot(x = 'petal_length', y = 'petal_width', data = df , zorder = -1 # send boxplot to backgroundįactor Plots (facetting) ax = sns.factorplot('variable', 'value', data = df_meltĪll seaborn plots can be tweaked and edited using matplolib, for example we can add a title and limit the range of the x-axis. Sns.boxplot('variable', 'value', data = df_melt Probably in order to fix this we would need to iterate over the box outlines and set their color attribute to ‘black’ which is a bit of a pain in the ass.

The problem is that nevertheless the plot order is a bot messed up and there is no option to change the color of the box outline to black. Sns.boxplot('variable', 'value', data = df_melt, hue = 'species') Here we cannot use hue to assign groups to colors sns.boxplot(data=df)įrom short format df_melt = df.melt(value_vars= plot.scatter( 'petal_length', 'petal_width'Īx = df.query('species = "virginica"') \ # old schoolĪx = df.loc = 'setosa', : ].plot.scatter('petal_length', 'petal_width', label = 'setosa', color = 'blue')Īx = df.query('species = "versicolor"') \ Is a lot more complicated, we have to add each species manually to an axes supplot object. sns.lmplot(x = 'petal_length', y = 'petal_width', data = dfĬompare to matplotlib method plt.scatter() This is in fact a scatter plot function, we just have to turn of the regression fit. seaborn supports long and wide format as input. Seaborn is built on top of matplotlib it provides some pretty decent defaults for matplotlib and has a stunning example gallery. In matplotlib we we woul iterate over every column that we would want to add to our plot while in ggplot we would define x and y measurements and then select a grouping or facetting variable.

The main difference of matplotlib to ggplot2 is that it is optimised for wide formatted data tables while ggplot2 is optimised for data in the long format. It seems that in python you have matplotlib which is fully integrated into pandas and you have seaborn which provides some pretty default setting for most of matplotlib’s standard graph types. In R I am used to work with a combination of ggplot2 and plotly.
Seaborn scatter plot with groups example series#
In order to visualize data from a Pandas DataFrame, you must extract each Series and often concatenate them together into the right format.
