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I have large subplot-based figure to produce in python using matplotlib. In total the figure has in excess of 500 individual plots each with 1000s of datapoints. This can be plotted using a for loop-based approach modelled on the minimum example given below
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec
# define main plot names and subplot names
mains = ['A','B','C','D']
subs = list(range(9))
# generate mimic data in pd dataframe
col = [letter+str(number) for letter in mains for number in subs]
col.insert(0,'Time')
df = pd.DataFrame(columns=col)
for title in df.columns:
df[title] = [i for i in range(100)]
# although alphabet and mains are the same in this minimal example this may not always be true
alphabet = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
column_names = [column for column in df.columns if column != 'Time']
# define figure size and main gridshape
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15, 15))
outer = gridspec.GridSpec(2, 2, wspace=0.2, hspace=0.2)
for i, letter in enumerate(alphabet):
# define inner grid size and shape
inner = gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec(3, 3,
subplot_spec=outer[i], wspace=0.1, hspace=0.1)
# select only columns with correct letter
plot_array = [col for col in column_names if col.startswith(letter)]
# set title for each letter plot
ax = plt.Subplot(fig, outer[i])
ax.set_title(f'Letter {letter}')
ax.axis('off')
fig.add_subplot(ax)
# create each subplot
for j, col in enumerate(plot_array):
ax = plt.Subplot(fig, inner[j])
X = df['Time']
Y = df[col]
# plot waveform
ax.plot(X, Y)
# hide all axis ticks
ax.axis('off')
# set y_axis limits so all plots share same y_axis
ax.set_ylim(df[column_names].min().min(),df[column_names].max().max())
fig.add_subplot(ax)
However this is slow, requiring minutes to plot the figure. Is there a more efficient (potentially for loop free) method to achieve the same result
The issue with the loop is not the plotting but the setting of the axis limits with df[column_names].min().min() and df[column_names].max().max().
Testing with 6 main plots, 64 subplots and 375,000 data points, the plotting section of the example takes approx 360s to complete when axis limits are set by searching df for min and max values each loop. However by moving the search for min and max outside the loops. eg
# set y_lims
y_upper = df[column_names].max().max()
y_lower = df[column_names].min().min()
and changing
ax.set_ylim(df[column_names].min().min(),df[column_names].max().max())
to
ax.set_ylim(y_lower,y_upper)
the plotting time is reduced to approx 24 seconds.
I have a few Pandas DataFrames sharing the same value scale, but having different columns and indices. When invoking df.plot(), I get separate plot images. what I really want is to have them all in the same plot as subplots, but I'm unfortunately failing to come up with a solution to how and would highly appreciate some help.
You can manually create the subplots with matplotlib, and then plot the dataframes on a specific subplot using the ax keyword. For example for 4 subplots (2x2):
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)
df1.plot(ax=axes[0,0])
df2.plot(ax=axes[0,1])
...
Here axes is an array which holds the different subplot axes, and you can access one just by indexing axes.
If you want a shared x-axis, then you can provide sharex=True to plt.subplots.
You can see e.gs. in the documentation demonstrating joris answer. Also from the documentation, you could also set subplots=True and layout=(,) within the pandas plot function:
df.plot(subplots=True, layout=(1,2))
You could also use fig.add_subplot() which takes subplot grid parameters such as 221, 222, 223, 224, etc. as described in the post here. Nice examples of plot on pandas data frame, including subplots, can be seen in this ipython notebook.
You can plot multiple subplots of multiple pandas data frames using matplotlib with a simple trick of making a list of all data frame. Then using the for loop for plotting subplots.
Working code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
# dataframe sample data
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df3 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df4 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df5 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df6 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
#define number of rows and columns for subplots
nrow=3
ncol=2
# make a list of all dataframes
df_list = [df1 ,df2, df3, df4, df5, df6]
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrow, ncol)
# plot counter
count=0
for r in range(nrow):
for c in range(ncol):
df_list[count].plot(ax=axes[r,c])
count+=1
Using this code you can plot subplots in any configuration. You need to define the number of rows nrow and the number of columns ncol. Also, you need to make list of data frames df_list which you wanted to plot.
You can use the familiar Matplotlib style calling a figure and subplot, but you simply need to specify the current axis using plt.gca(). An example:
plt.figure(1)
plt.subplot(2,2,1)
df.A.plot() #no need to specify for first axis
plt.subplot(2,2,2)
df.B.plot(ax=plt.gca())
plt.subplot(2,2,3)
df.C.plot(ax=plt.gca())
etc...
You can use this:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(221)
plt.plot(x,y)
ax = fig.add_subplot(222)
plt.plot(x,z)
...
plt.show()
You may not need to use Pandas at all. Here's a matplotlib plot of cat frequencies:
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 400)
y = np.sin(x**2)
f, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1)
for c, i in enumerate(axes):
axes[c].plot(x, y)
axes[c].set_title('cats')
plt.tight_layout()
Option 1: Create subplots from a dictionary of dataframes with long (tidy) data
Assumptions:
There is a dictionary of multiple dataframes of tidy data that are either:
Created by reading in from files
Created by separating a single dataframe into multiple dataframes
The categories, cat, may be overlapping, but all dataframes don't necessarily contain all values of cat
hue='cat'
This example uses a dict of dataframes, but a list of dataframes would be similar.
If the dataframes are wide, use pandas.DataFrame.melt to convert them to long form.
Because dataframes are being iterated through, there's no guarantee that colors will be mapped the same for each plot
A custom color map needs to be created from the unique 'cat' values for all the dataframes
Since the colors will be the same, place one legend to the side of the plots, instead of a legend in every plot
Tested in python 3.10, pandas 1.4.3, matplotlib 3.5.1, seaborn 0.11.2
Imports and Test Data
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np # used for random data
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Patch # for custom legend - square patches
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D # for custom legend - round markers
import seaborn as sns
import math import ceil # determine correct number of subplot
# synthetic data
df_dict = dict()
for i in range(1, 7):
np.random.seed(i) # for repeatable sample data
data_length = 100
data = {'cat': np.random.choice(['A', 'B', 'C'], size=data_length),
'x': np.random.rand(data_length), 'y': np.random.rand(data_length)}
df_dict[i] = pd.DataFrame(data)
# display(df_dict[1].head())
cat x y
0 B 0.944595 0.606329
1 A 0.586555 0.568851
2 A 0.903402 0.317362
3 B 0.137475 0.988616
4 B 0.139276 0.579745
# display(df_dict[6].tail())
cat x y
95 B 0.881222 0.263168
96 A 0.193668 0.636758
97 A 0.824001 0.638832
98 C 0.323998 0.505060
99 C 0.693124 0.737582
Create color mappings and plot
# create color mapping based on all unique values of cat
unique_cat = {cat for v in df_dict.values() for cat in v.cat.unique()} # get unique cats
colors = sns.color_palette('tab10', n_colors=len(unique_cat)) # get a number of colors
cmap = dict(zip(unique_cat, colors)) # zip values to colors
col_nums = 3 # how many plots per row
row_nums = math.ceil(len(df_dict) / col_nums) # how many rows of plots
# create the figue and axes
fig, axes = plt.subplots(row_nums, col_nums, figsize=(9, 6), sharex=True, sharey=True)
# convert to 1D array for easy iteration
axes = axes.flat
# iterate through dictionary and plot
for ax, (k, v) in zip(axes, df_dict.items()):
sns.scatterplot(data=v, x='x', y='y', hue='cat', palette=cmap, ax=ax)
sns.despine(top=True, right=True)
ax.legend_.remove() # remove the individual plot legends
ax.set_title(f'dataset = {k}', fontsize=11)
fig.tight_layout()
# create legend from cmap
# patches = [Patch(color=v, label=k) for k, v in cmap.items()] # square patches
patches = [Line2D([0], [0], marker='o', color='w', markerfacecolor=v, label=k, markersize=8) for k, v in cmap.items()] # round markers
# place legend outside of plot; change the right bbox value to move the legend up or down
plt.legend(title='cat', handles=patches, bbox_to_anchor=(1.06, 1.2), loc='center left', borderaxespad=0, frameon=False)
plt.show()
Option 2: Create subplots from a single dataframe with multiple separate datasets
The dataframes must be in a long form with the same column names.
This option uses pd.concat to combine multiple dataframes into a single dataframe, and .assign to add a new column.
See Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame for creating a single dataframes from a list of files.
This option is easier because it doesn't require manually mapping colors to 'cat'
Combine DataFrames
# using df_dict, with dataframes as values, from the top
# combine all the dataframes in df_dict to a single dataframe with an identifier column
df = pd.concat((v.assign(dataset=k) for k, v in df_dict.items()), ignore_index=True)
# display(df.head())
cat x y dataset
0 B 0.944595 0.606329 1
1 A 0.586555 0.568851 1
2 A 0.903402 0.317362 1
3 B 0.137475 0.988616 1
4 B 0.139276 0.579745 1
# display(df.tail())
cat x y dataset
595 B 0.881222 0.263168 6
596 A 0.193668 0.636758 6
597 A 0.824001 0.638832 6
598 C 0.323998 0.505060 6
599 C 0.693124 0.737582 6
Plot a FacetGrid with seaborn.relplot
sns.relplot(kind='scatter', data=df, x='x', y='y', hue='cat', col='dataset', col_wrap=3, height=3)
Both options create the same result, however, it's less complicated to combine all the dataframes, and plot a figure-level plot with sns.relplot.
Building on #joris response above, if you have already established a reference to the subplot, you can use the reference as well. For example,
ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((50,100), (0, 0), colspan=20, rowspan=10)
...
df.plot.barh(ax=ax1, stacked=True)
Here is a working pandas subplot example, where modes is the column names of the dataframe.
dpi=200
figure_size=(20, 10)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(len(modes), 1, sharex="all", sharey="all", dpi=dpi)
for i in range(len(modes)):
ax[i] = pivot_df.loc[:, modes[i]].plot.bar(figsize=(figure_size[0], figure_size[1]*len(modes)),
ax=ax[i], title=modes[i], color=my_colors[i])
ax[i].legend()
fig.suptitle(name)
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
imoprt matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2,2)
df = pd.DataFrame({'A':np.random.randint(1,100,10),
'B': np.random.randint(100,1000,10),
'C':np.random.randint(100,200,10)})
for ax in ax.flatten():
df.plot(ax =ax)
I have a number of charts, made with matplotlib and seaborn, that look like the example below.
I show how certain quantities evolve over time on a lineplot
The x-axis labels are not numbers but strings (e.g. 'Q1' or '2018 first half' etc)
I need to "extend" the x-axis to the right, with an empty period. The chart must show from Q1 to Q4, but there is no data for Q4 (the Q4 column is full of nans)
I need this because I need the charts to be side-by-side with others which do have data for Q4
matplotlib doesn't display the column full of nans
If the x-axis were numeric, it would be easy to extend the range of the plot; since it's not numeric, I don't know which x_range each tick corresponds to
I have found the solution below. It works, but it's not elegant: I use integers for the x-axis, add 1, then set the labels back to the strings. Is there a more elegant way?
This is the code:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib
from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter
import seaborn as sns
df =pd.DataFrame()
df['period'] = ['Q1','Q2','Q3','Q4']
df['a'] = [3,4,5,np.nan]
df['b'] = [4,4,6,np.nan]
df = df.set_index( 'period')
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,2)
sns.lineplot( data = df, ax =ax[0])
df_idx = df.index
df2 = df.set_index( np.arange(1, len(df_idx) + 1 ))
sns.lineplot(data = df2, ax = ax[1])
ax[1].set_xlim(1,4)
ax[1].set_xticklabels(df.index)
You can add these lines of code for ax[0]
left_buffer,right_buffer = 3,2
labels = ['Q1','Q2','Q3','Q4']
extanded_labels = ['']*left_buffer + labels + ['']*right_buffer
left_range = list(range(-left_buffer,0))
right_range = list(range(len(labels),len(labels)+right_buffer))
ticks_range = left_range + list(range(len(labels))) + right_range
aux_range = list(range(len(extanded_labels)))
ax[0].set_xticks(ticks_range)
ax[0].set_xticklabels(extanded_labels)
xticks = ax[0].xaxis.get_major_ticks()
for ind in aux_range[0:left_buffer]: xticks[ind].tick1line.set_visible(False)
for ind in aux_range[len(labels)+left_buffer:len(labels)+left_buffer+right_buffer]: xticks[ind].tick1line.set_visible(False)
in which left_buffer and right_buffer are margins you want to add to the left and to the right, respectively. Running the code, you will get
I may have actually found a simpler solution: I can draw a transparent line (alpha = 0 ) by plotting x = index of the dataframe, ie with all the labels, including those for which all values are nans, and y = the average value of the dataframe, so as to be sure it's within the range:
sns.lineplot(x = df.index, y = np.ones(df.shape[0]) * df.mean().mean() , ax = ax[0], alpha =0 )
This assumes the scale of the y a xis has not been changed manually; a better way of doing it would be to check whether it has:
y_centre = np.mean([ax[0].get_ylim()])
sns.lineplot(x = df.index, y = np.ones(df.shape[0]) * y_centre , ax = ax[0], alpha =0 )
Drawing a transparent line forces matplotlib to extend the axes so as to show all the x values, even those for which all the other values are nans.
I have a few Pandas DataFrames sharing the same value scale, but having different columns and indices. When invoking df.plot(), I get separate plot images. what I really want is to have them all in the same plot as subplots, but I'm unfortunately failing to come up with a solution to how and would highly appreciate some help.
You can manually create the subplots with matplotlib, and then plot the dataframes on a specific subplot using the ax keyword. For example for 4 subplots (2x2):
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)
df1.plot(ax=axes[0,0])
df2.plot(ax=axes[0,1])
...
Here axes is an array which holds the different subplot axes, and you can access one just by indexing axes.
If you want a shared x-axis, then you can provide sharex=True to plt.subplots.
You can see e.gs. in the documentation demonstrating joris answer. Also from the documentation, you could also set subplots=True and layout=(,) within the pandas plot function:
df.plot(subplots=True, layout=(1,2))
You could also use fig.add_subplot() which takes subplot grid parameters such as 221, 222, 223, 224, etc. as described in the post here. Nice examples of plot on pandas data frame, including subplots, can be seen in this ipython notebook.
You can plot multiple subplots of multiple pandas data frames using matplotlib with a simple trick of making a list of all data frame. Then using the for loop for plotting subplots.
Working code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
# dataframe sample data
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df3 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df4 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df5 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
df6 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10,2)*100, columns=['A', 'B'])
#define number of rows and columns for subplots
nrow=3
ncol=2
# make a list of all dataframes
df_list = [df1 ,df2, df3, df4, df5, df6]
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrow, ncol)
# plot counter
count=0
for r in range(nrow):
for c in range(ncol):
df_list[count].plot(ax=axes[r,c])
count+=1
Using this code you can plot subplots in any configuration. You need to define the number of rows nrow and the number of columns ncol. Also, you need to make list of data frames df_list which you wanted to plot.
You can use the familiar Matplotlib style calling a figure and subplot, but you simply need to specify the current axis using plt.gca(). An example:
plt.figure(1)
plt.subplot(2,2,1)
df.A.plot() #no need to specify for first axis
plt.subplot(2,2,2)
df.B.plot(ax=plt.gca())
plt.subplot(2,2,3)
df.C.plot(ax=plt.gca())
etc...
You can use this:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(221)
plt.plot(x,y)
ax = fig.add_subplot(222)
plt.plot(x,z)
...
plt.show()
You may not need to use Pandas at all. Here's a matplotlib plot of cat frequencies:
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 400)
y = np.sin(x**2)
f, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1)
for c, i in enumerate(axes):
axes[c].plot(x, y)
axes[c].set_title('cats')
plt.tight_layout()
Option 1: Create subplots from a dictionary of dataframes with long (tidy) data
Assumptions:
There is a dictionary of multiple dataframes of tidy data that are either:
Created by reading in from files
Created by separating a single dataframe into multiple dataframes
The categories, cat, may be overlapping, but all dataframes don't necessarily contain all values of cat
hue='cat'
This example uses a dict of dataframes, but a list of dataframes would be similar.
If the dataframes are wide, use pandas.DataFrame.melt to convert them to long form.
Because dataframes are being iterated through, there's no guarantee that colors will be mapped the same for each plot
A custom color map needs to be created from the unique 'cat' values for all the dataframes
Since the colors will be the same, place one legend to the side of the plots, instead of a legend in every plot
Tested in python 3.10, pandas 1.4.3, matplotlib 3.5.1, seaborn 0.11.2
Imports and Test Data
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np # used for random data
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Patch # for custom legend - square patches
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D # for custom legend - round markers
import seaborn as sns
import math import ceil # determine correct number of subplot
# synthetic data
df_dict = dict()
for i in range(1, 7):
np.random.seed(i) # for repeatable sample data
data_length = 100
data = {'cat': np.random.choice(['A', 'B', 'C'], size=data_length),
'x': np.random.rand(data_length), 'y': np.random.rand(data_length)}
df_dict[i] = pd.DataFrame(data)
# display(df_dict[1].head())
cat x y
0 B 0.944595 0.606329
1 A 0.586555 0.568851
2 A 0.903402 0.317362
3 B 0.137475 0.988616
4 B 0.139276 0.579745
# display(df_dict[6].tail())
cat x y
95 B 0.881222 0.263168
96 A 0.193668 0.636758
97 A 0.824001 0.638832
98 C 0.323998 0.505060
99 C 0.693124 0.737582
Create color mappings and plot
# create color mapping based on all unique values of cat
unique_cat = {cat for v in df_dict.values() for cat in v.cat.unique()} # get unique cats
colors = sns.color_palette('tab10', n_colors=len(unique_cat)) # get a number of colors
cmap = dict(zip(unique_cat, colors)) # zip values to colors
col_nums = 3 # how many plots per row
row_nums = math.ceil(len(df_dict) / col_nums) # how many rows of plots
# create the figue and axes
fig, axes = plt.subplots(row_nums, col_nums, figsize=(9, 6), sharex=True, sharey=True)
# convert to 1D array for easy iteration
axes = axes.flat
# iterate through dictionary and plot
for ax, (k, v) in zip(axes, df_dict.items()):
sns.scatterplot(data=v, x='x', y='y', hue='cat', palette=cmap, ax=ax)
sns.despine(top=True, right=True)
ax.legend_.remove() # remove the individual plot legends
ax.set_title(f'dataset = {k}', fontsize=11)
fig.tight_layout()
# create legend from cmap
# patches = [Patch(color=v, label=k) for k, v in cmap.items()] # square patches
patches = [Line2D([0], [0], marker='o', color='w', markerfacecolor=v, label=k, markersize=8) for k, v in cmap.items()] # round markers
# place legend outside of plot; change the right bbox value to move the legend up or down
plt.legend(title='cat', handles=patches, bbox_to_anchor=(1.06, 1.2), loc='center left', borderaxespad=0, frameon=False)
plt.show()
Option 2: Create subplots from a single dataframe with multiple separate datasets
The dataframes must be in a long form with the same column names.
This option uses pd.concat to combine multiple dataframes into a single dataframe, and .assign to add a new column.
See Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame for creating a single dataframes from a list of files.
This option is easier because it doesn't require manually mapping colors to 'cat'
Combine DataFrames
# using df_dict, with dataframes as values, from the top
# combine all the dataframes in df_dict to a single dataframe with an identifier column
df = pd.concat((v.assign(dataset=k) for k, v in df_dict.items()), ignore_index=True)
# display(df.head())
cat x y dataset
0 B 0.944595 0.606329 1
1 A 0.586555 0.568851 1
2 A 0.903402 0.317362 1
3 B 0.137475 0.988616 1
4 B 0.139276 0.579745 1
# display(df.tail())
cat x y dataset
595 B 0.881222 0.263168 6
596 A 0.193668 0.636758 6
597 A 0.824001 0.638832 6
598 C 0.323998 0.505060 6
599 C 0.693124 0.737582 6
Plot a FacetGrid with seaborn.relplot
sns.relplot(kind='scatter', data=df, x='x', y='y', hue='cat', col='dataset', col_wrap=3, height=3)
Both options create the same result, however, it's less complicated to combine all the dataframes, and plot a figure-level plot with sns.relplot.
Building on #joris response above, if you have already established a reference to the subplot, you can use the reference as well. For example,
ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((50,100), (0, 0), colspan=20, rowspan=10)
...
df.plot.barh(ax=ax1, stacked=True)
Here is a working pandas subplot example, where modes is the column names of the dataframe.
dpi=200
figure_size=(20, 10)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(len(modes), 1, sharex="all", sharey="all", dpi=dpi)
for i in range(len(modes)):
ax[i] = pivot_df.loc[:, modes[i]].plot.bar(figsize=(figure_size[0], figure_size[1]*len(modes)),
ax=ax[i], title=modes[i], color=my_colors[i])
ax[i].legend()
fig.suptitle(name)
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
imoprt matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2,2)
df = pd.DataFrame({'A':np.random.randint(1,100,10),
'B': np.random.randint(100,1000,10),
'C':np.random.randint(100,200,10)})
for ax in ax.flatten():
df.plot(ax =ax)
Is there a way to iteratively plot data using seaborn's sns.boxplot() without having the boxplots overlap? (without combining datasets into a single pd.DataFrame())
Background
Sometimes when comparing different (e.g. size/shape) datasets, a mutual comparison is often useful and can be made by binning the datasets by a different shared variable (via pd.cut() and df.groupby(), as shown below).
Previously, I have iteratively plotted these "binned" data as boxplots on the same axis by looping separate DataFrames using matplotlib's ax.boxplot() (by providing y axis location values as a position argument to to ensure boxplots don't overlap).
Example
Below is an simplified example that shows the overlapping plots in when using sns.boxplot():
import seaborn as sns
import random
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Get the tips dataset and select a subset as an example
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
variable_to_bin_by = 'tip'
binned_variable = 'total_bill'
df = tips[[binned_variable, variable_to_bin_by] ]
# Create a second dataframe with different values and shape
df2 = pd.concat( [ df.copy() ] *5 )
# Use psuedo random numbers to convey that df2 is different to df
scale = [ random.uniform(0,2) for i in range(len(df2[binned_variable])) ]
df2[ binned_variable ] = df2[binned_variable].values * scale * 5
dfs = [ df, df2 ]
# Group the data by a list of bins
bins = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
for n, df in enumerate( dfs ):
gdf = df.groupby( pd.cut(df[variable_to_bin_by].values, bins ) )
data = [ i[1][binned_variable].values for i in gdf]
dfs[n] = pd.DataFrame( data, index = bins[:-1])
# Create an axis for both DataFrames to be plotted on
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# Loop the DataFrames and plot
colors = ['red', 'black']
for n in range(2):
ax = sns.boxplot( data=dfs[n].T, ax=ax, width=0.2, orient='h',
color=colors[n] )
plt.ylabel( variable_to_bin_by )
plt.xlabel( binned_variable )
plt.show()
More detail
I realise the simplified example above could resolved by combining the DataFrames and providing the hue argument to sns.boxplot().
Updating the index of the DataFrames provide also doesn't help, as y values from the last DataFrame provided is then used.
Providing the kwargs argument (e.g. kwargs={'positions': dfs[n].T.index}) won't work as this raises a TypeError.
TypeError: boxplot() got multiple values for keyword argument
'positions'
The setting sns.boxplot()'s dodge argument to True doesn't solve this.
Funnily enough, the "hack" that I proposed earlier today in this answer could be applied here.
It complicates the code a bit because seaborn expects a long-form dataframe instead of a wide-form to use hue-nesting.
# Get the tips dataset and select a subset as an example
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
df = tips[['total_bill', 'tip'] ]
# Group the data by
bins = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
gdf = df.groupby( pd.cut(df['tip'].values, bins ) )
data = [ i[1]['total_bill'].values for i in gdf]
df = pd.DataFrame( data , index = bins[:-1]).T
dfm = df.melt() # create a long-form database
dfm.loc[:,'dummy'] = 'dummy'
# Create a second, slightly different, DataFrame
dfm2 = dfm.copy()
dfm2.value = dfm.value*2
dfs = [ dfm, dfm2 ]
colors = ['red', 'black']
hue_orders = [['dummy','other'], ['other','dummy']]
# Create an axis for both DataFrames to be plotted on
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# Loop the DataFrames and plot
for n in range(2):
ax = sns.boxplot( data=dfs[n], x='value', y='variable', hue='dummy', hue_order=hue_orders[n], ax=ax, width=0.2, orient='h',
color=colors[n] )
ax.legend_.remove()
plt.show()