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Legend in matplotlib shows first entry of a list only

I'm trying to display a custom legend for a bar graph, but it is only displaying the first legend in the legend list. How can I display all the values in the legend?
df.time_to_travel_grouping.value_counts().plot(kind="bar",
color = ["b","tab:green","tab:red","c","m","y","tab:blue","tab:orange"],
xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts",
title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)", figsize=(20,15))
plt.legend(["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h"])
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.15)

Let's get the patches handles from the axes using ax.get_legend_handles_labels:
s = pd.Series(np.arange(100,50,-5), index=[*'abcdefghij'])
ax = s.plot(kind="bar",
color = ["b","tab:green","tab:red","c","m","y","tab:blue","tab:orange"],
xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts",
title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)", figsize=(20,15))
patches, _ = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
labels = [*'abcdefghij']
ax.legend(*patches, labels, loc='best')
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.15)
Output:

To create an automatic legend, matplotlib stores labels for graphical elements. In the case of this bar plot, the complete 'container' pandas assigns one label to the complete 'container'.
You could remove the label of the container (assigning a label starting with _), and assign individual labels to the bars. The xtick labels can be used, as they are already in the desired order.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame({'time_to_travel_grouping': np.random.choice([*'abcdefgh'], 200)})
ax = df.time_to_travel_grouping.value_counts().plot(kind="bar",
color=["b", "tab:green", "tab:red", "c", "m", "y", "tab:blue", "tab:orange"],
xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts",
title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)",
figsize=(20, 15))
ax.containers[0].set_label('_nolegend')
for bar, tick_label in zip(ax.containers[0], ax.get_xticklabels()):
bar.set_label(tick_label.get_text())
ax.legend()
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
With a little bit less internal manipulation, something similar can be obtained via seaborn:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
df = pd.DataFrame({'time_to_travel_grouping': np.random.choice([*'abcdefgh'], 200)})
plt.figure(figsize=(20, 15))
ax = sns.countplot(data=df, x='time_to_travel_grouping', hue='time_to_travel_grouping',
palette=["b", "tab:green", "tab:red", "c", "m", "y", "tab:blue", "tab:orange"],
order=df.time_to_travel_grouping.value_counts().index,
dodge=False)
plt.setp(ax, xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts", title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)")
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Just putting the strings in legend function does not work as you expected in matplotlib. So, for adding all desired legends to the plot, you can make the patch objects from them with colors and add by this way. This piece of code will do the job and I think more generalized than the other solutions:
## include this library
import matplotlib.patches as mpatches
## desired legends
legend_list = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h"]
## corresponding colors in the same order
color_list = ["b","tab:green","tab:red","c","m","y","tab:blue","tab:orange"]
## make patches from the legends and corresponding colors
patch_list = []
i = 0
for each_legend in legend_list:
patch_list.append(mpatches.Patch(label=each_legend, color=color_list[i]))
i += 1
## add made patches to the plot
plt.legend(handles=patch_list, fontsize=12, loc=(1, 0))

How to add median value labels to a Seaborn boxplot using the hue argument

In addition to the solution posted in this link I would also like if I can also add the Hue Parameter, and add the Median Values in each of the plots.
The Current Code:
testPlot = sns.boxplot(x='Pclass', y='Age', hue='Sex', data=trainData)
m1 = trainData.groupby(['Pclass', 'Sex'])['Age'].median().values
mL1 = [str(np.round(s, 2)) for s in m1]
p1 = range(len(m1))
for tick, label in zip(p1, testPlot.get_xticklabels()):
print(testPlot.text(p1[tick], m1[tick] + 1, mL1[tick]))
Gives a Output Like:
I'm working on the Titanic Dataset which can be found in this link.
I'm getting the required values, but only when I do a print statement, how do I include it in my Plot?

Place your labels manually according to hue parameter and width of bars for every category in a cycle of all xticklabels:
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
trainData = pd.read_csv('titanic.csv')
testPlot = sns.boxplot(x='pclass', y='age', hue='sex', data=trainData)
m1 = trainData.groupby(['pclass', 'sex'])['age'].median().values
mL1 = [str(np.round(s, 2)) for s in m1]
ind = 0
for tick in range(len(testPlot.get_xticklabels())):
testPlot.text(tick-.2, m1[ind+1]+1, mL1[ind+1], horizontalalignment='center', color='w', weight='semibold')
testPlot.text(tick+.2, m1[ind]+1, mL1[ind], horizontalalignment='center', color='w', weight='semibold')
ind += 2
plt.show()

This answer is nearly copy & pasted from here but fit more to your example code. The linked answer is IMHO a bit missplaced there because that question is just about labeling a boxplot and not about a boxplot using the hue argument.
I couldn't use your Train dataset because it is not available as Python package. So I used Titanic instead which has nearly the same column names.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.patheffects as path_effects
import seaborn as sns
def add_median_labels(ax, fmt='.1f'):
"""Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63295846/4865723
"""
lines = ax.get_lines()
boxes = [c for c in ax.get_children() if type(c).__name__ == 'PathPatch']
lines_per_box = int(len(lines) / len(boxes))
for median in lines[4:len(lines):lines_per_box]:
x, y = (data.mean() for data in median.get_data())
# choose value depending on horizontal or vertical plot orientation
value = x if (median.get_xdata()[1] - median.get_xdata()[0]) == 0 else y
text = ax.text(x, y, f'{value:{fmt}}', ha='center', va='center',
fontweight='bold', color='white')
# create median-colored border around white text for contrast
text.set_path_effects([
path_effects.Stroke(linewidth=3, foreground=median.get_color()),
path_effects.Normal(),
])
df = sns.load_dataset('titanic')
plot = sns.boxplot(x='pclass', y='age', hue='sex', data=df)
add_median_labels(plot)
plot.figure.show()
Als an alternative when you create your boxplot with a figure-based function. In that case you need to give the axes parameter to add_median_labels().
# imports and add_median_labels() unchanged
df = sns.load_dataset('titanic')
plot = sns.catplot(kind='box', x='pclass', y='age', hue='sex', data=df)
add_median_labels(plot.axes[0][0])
plot.figure.show()
The resulting plot
This solution also works with more then two categories in the column used for the hue argument.

Add Legend to Seaborn point plot

I am plotting multiple dataframes as point plot using seaborn. Also I am plotting all the dataframes on the same axis.
How would I add legend to the plot ?
My code takes each of the dataframe and plots it one after another on the same figure.
Each dataframe has same columns
date count
2017-01-01 35
2017-01-02 43
2017-01-03 12
2017-01-04 27
My code :
f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=figsize)
x_col='date'
y_col = 'count'
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_1,color='blue')
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_2,color='green')
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_3,color='red')
This plots 3 lines on the same plot. However the legend is missing. The documentation does not accept label argument .
One workaround that worked was creating a new dataframe and using hue argument.
df_1['region'] = 'A'
df_2['region'] = 'B'
df_3['region'] = 'C'
df = pd.concat([df_1,df_2,df_3])
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df,hue='region')
But I would like to know if there is a way to create a legend for the code that first adds sequentially point plot to the figure and then add a legend.
Sample output :

I would suggest not to use seaborn pointplot for plotting. This makes things unnecessarily complicated.
Instead use matplotlib plot_date. This allows to set labels to the plots and have them automatically put into a legend with ax.legend().
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np
date = pd.date_range("2017-03", freq="M", periods=15)
count = np.random.rand(15,4)
df1 = pd.DataFrame({"date":date, "count" : count[:,0]})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({"date":date, "count" : count[:,1]+0.7})
df3 = pd.DataFrame({"date":date, "count" : count[:,2]+2})
f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
x_col='date'
y_col = 'count'
ax.plot_date(df1.date, df1["count"], color="blue", label="A", linestyle="-")
ax.plot_date(df2.date, df2["count"], color="red", label="B", linestyle="-")
ax.plot_date(df3.date, df3["count"], color="green", label="C", linestyle="-")
ax.legend()
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()
plt.show()
In case one is still interested in obtaining the legend for pointplots, here a way to go:
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df1,color='blue')
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df2,color='green')
sns.pointplot(ax=ax,x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df3,color='red')
ax.legend(handles=ax.lines[::len(df1)+1], labels=["A","B","C"])
ax.set_xticklabels([t.get_text().split("T")[0] for t in ax.get_xticklabels()])
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()
plt.show()

Old question, but there's an easier way.
sns.pointplot(x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_1,color='blue')
sns.pointplot(x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_2,color='green')
sns.pointplot(x=x_col,y=y_col,data=df_3,color='red')
plt.legend(labels=['legendEntry1', 'legendEntry2', 'legendEntry3'])
This lets you add the plots sequentially, and not have to worry about any of the matplotlib crap besides defining the legend items.

I tried using Adam B's answer, however, it didn't work for me. Instead, I found the following workaround for adding legends to pointplots.
import matplotlib.patches as mpatches
red_patch = mpatches.Patch(color='#bb3f3f', label='Label1')
black_patch = mpatches.Patch(color='#000000', label='Label2')
In the pointplots, the color can be specified as mentioned in previous answers. Once these patches corresponding to the different plots are set up,
plt.legend(handles=[red_patch, black_patch])
And the legend ought to appear in the pointplot.

This goes a bit beyond the original question, but also builds on #PSub's response to something more general---I do know some of this is easier in Matplotlib directly, but many of the default styling options for Seaborn are quite nice, so I wanted to work out how you could have more than one legend for a point plot (or other Seaborn plot) without dropping into Matplotlib right at the start.
Here's one solution:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# We will need to access some of these matplotlib classes directly
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D # For points and lines
from matplotlib.patches import Patch # For KDE and other plots
from matplotlib.legend import Legend
from matplotlib import cm
# Initialise random number generator
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=42)
# Generate sample of 25 numbers
n = 25
clusters = []
for c in range(0,3):
# Crude way to get different distributions
# for each cluster
p = rng.integers(low=1, high=6, size=4)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'x': rng.normal(p[0], p[1], n),
'y': rng.normal(p[2], p[3], n),
'name': f"Cluster {c+1}"
})
clusters.append(df)
# Flatten to a single data frame
clusters = pd.concat(clusters)
# Now do the same for data to feed into
# the second (scatter) plot...
n = 8
points = []
for c in range(0,2):
p = rng.integers(low=1, high=6, size=4)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'x': rng.normal(p[0], p[1], n),
'y': rng.normal(p[2], p[3], n),
'name': f"Group {c+1}"
})
points.append(df)
points = pd.concat(points)
# And create the figure
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,8))
# The KDE-plot generates a Legend 'as usual'
k = sns.kdeplot(
data=clusters,
x='x', y='y',
hue='name',
shade=True,
thresh=0.05,
n_levels=2,
alpha=0.2,
ax=ax,
)
# Notice that we access this legend via the
# axis to turn off the frame, set the title,
# and adjust the patch alpha level so that
# it closely matches the alpha of the KDE-plot
ax.get_legend().set_frame_on(False)
ax.get_legend().set_title("Clusters")
for lh in ax.get_legend().get_patches():
lh.set_alpha(0.2)
# You would probably want to sort your data
# frame or set the hue and style order in order
# to ensure consistency for your own application
# but this works for demonstration purposes
groups = points.name.unique()
markers = ['o', 'v', 's', 'X', 'D', '<', '>']
colors = cm.get_cmap('Dark2').colors
# Generate the scatterplot: notice that Legend is
# off (otherwise this legend would overwrite the
# first one) and that we're setting the hue, style,
# markers, and palette using the 'name' parameter
# from the data frame and the number of groups in
# the data.
p = sns.scatterplot(
data=points,
x="x",
y="y",
hue='name',
style='name',
markers=markers[:len(groups)],
palette=colors[:len(groups)],
legend=False,
s=30,
alpha=1.0
)
# Here's the 'magic' -- we use zip to link together
# the group name, the color, and the marker style. You
# *cannot* retreive the marker style from the scatterplot
# since that information is lost when rendered as a
# PathCollection (as far as I can tell). Anyway, this allows
# us to loop over each group in the second data frame and
# generate a 'fake' Line2D plot (with zero elements and no
# line-width in our case) that we can add to the legend. If
# you were overlaying a line plot or a second plot that uses
# patches you'd have to tweak this accordingly.
patches = []
for x in zip(groups, colors[:len(groups)], markers[:len(groups)]):
patches.append(Line2D([0],[0], linewidth=0.0, linestyle='',
color=x[1], markerfacecolor=x[1],
marker=x[2], label=x[0], alpha=1.0))
# And add these patches (with their group labels) to the new
# legend item and place it on the plot.
leg = Legend(ax, patches, labels=groups,
loc='upper left', frameon=False, title='Groups')
ax.add_artist(leg);
# Done
plt.show();
Here's the output:

Change the facecolor of boxplot in pandas

I need to change the colors of the boxplot drawn using pandas utility function. I can change most properties using the color argument but can't figure out how to change the facecolor of the box. Someone knows how to do it?
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data = np.random.randn(100, 4)
labels = list("ABCD")
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=labels)
props = dict(boxes="DarkGreen", whiskers="DarkOrange", medians="DarkBlue", caps="Gray")
df.plot.box(color=props)

While I still recommend seaborn and raw matplotlib over the plotting interface in pandas, it turns out that you can pass patch_artist=True as a kwarg to df.plot.box, which will pass it as a kwarg to df.plot, which will pass is as a kwarg to matplotlib.Axes.boxplot.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data = np.random.randn(100, 4)
labels = list("ABCD")
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=labels)
props = dict(boxes="DarkGreen", whiskers="DarkOrange", medians="DarkBlue", caps="Gray")
df.plot.box(color=props, patch_artist=True)

As suggested, I ended up creating a function to plot this, using raw matplotlib.
def plot_boxplot(data, ax):
bp = ax.boxplot(data.values, patch_artist=True)
for box in bp['boxes']:
box.set(color='DarkGreen')
box.set(facecolor='DarkGreen')
for whisker in bp['whiskers']:
whisker.set(color="DarkOrange")
for cap in bp['caps']:
cap.set(color="Gray")
for median in bp['medians']:
median.set(color="white")
ax.axhline(0, color="DarkBlue", linestyle=":")
ax.set_xticklabels(data.columns)

I suggest using df.plot.box with patch_artist=True and return_type='both' (which returns the matplotlib axes the boxplot is drawn on and a dictionary whose values are the matplotlib Lines of the boxplot) in order to have the best customization possibilities.
For example, given this data:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
df = pd.DataFrame(
data=np.random.randn(100, 4),
columns=list("ABCD")
)
you can set a specific color for all the boxes:
fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,6))
ax,props = df.plot.box(patch_artist=True, return_type='both', ax=ax)
for patch in props['boxes']:
patch.set_facecolor('lime')
plt.show()
you can set a specific color for each box:
colors = ['green','blue','yellow','red']
fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,6))
ax,props = df.plot.box(patch_artist=True, return_type='both', ax=ax)
for patch,color in zip(props['boxes'],colors):
patch.set_facecolor(color)
plt.show()
you can easily integrate a colormap:
colors = np.random.randint(0,10, 4)
cm = plt.cm.get_cmap('rainbow')
colors_cm = [cm((c-colors.min())/(colors.max()-colors.min())) for c in colors]
fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,6))
ax,props = df.plot.box(patch_artist=True, return_type='both', ax=ax)
for patch,color in zip(props['boxes'],colors_cm):
patch.set_facecolor(color)
# to add colorbar
fig.colorbar(plt.cm.ScalarMappable(
plt.cm.colors.Normalize(min(colors),max(colors)),
cmap='rainbow'
), ax=ax, cmap='rainbow')
plt.show()

Python Seaborn Matplotlib setting line style as legend

I have the following plot build with seaborn using factorplot() method.
Is it possible to use the line style as a legend to replace the legend based on line color on the right?
graycolors = sns.mpl_palette('Greys_r', 4)
g = sns.factorplot(x="k", y="value", hue="class", palette=graycolors,
data=df, linestyles=["-", "--"])
Furthermore I'm trying to get both lines in black color using the color="black" parameter in my factorplot method but this results in an exception "factorplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'color'". How can I paint both lines in the same color and separate them by the linestyle only?

I have been looking for a solution trying to put the linestyle in the legend like matplotlib, but I have not yet found how to do this in seaborn. However, to make the data clear in the legend I have used different markers:
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
# creating some data
n = 11
x = np.linspace(0,2, n)
y = np.sin(2*np.pi*x)
y2 = np.cos(2*np.pi*x)
data = {'x': np.append(x, x), 'y': np.append(y, y2),
'class': np.append(np.repeat('sin', n), np.repeat('cos', n))}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
# plot the data with the markers
# note that I put the legend=False to move it up (otherwise it was blocking the graph)
g=sns.factorplot(x="x", y="y", hue="class", palette=graycolors,
data=df, linestyles=["-", "--"], markers=['o','v'], legend=False)
# placing the legend up
g.axes[0][0].legend(loc=1)
# showing graph
plt.show()

you can try the following:
h = plt.gca().get_lines()
lg = plt.legend(handles=h, labels=['YOUR Labels List'], loc='best')
It worked fine with me.