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AS_Butler
AS_Butler

Reputation: 281

Seaborn automatic color selection

I'm using seaborn to create a horizontal bar chart. From this example, here is how I am setting colors.

sns.set_color_codes("pastel")
sns.barplot(x="total", y="abbrev", data=crashes, label="Total", color="b")

So in this example the field 'total' will have the color "b" (for blue) from the "pastel" palette.

I have around 60 different fields, and I do not want to set all the colors manually. Is there a way to let seaborn choose the colors (and even the palette) automatically?

As it stands my plan is to create the barplots in a cycle

for field in fields:
    sns.set_color_codes(foo)
    sns.barplot(x=field, y="abbrev", data=crashes, label=field, color="bar")

where foo and bar are somehow generated for me by seaborn.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2905

Answers (1)

Spandan Brahmbhatt
Spandan Brahmbhatt

Reputation: 4044

You can use the argument palette= in the barplot method as specified in documentation Seaborn Barplot.

A really good example of values that you can provide to palette method is available at Seaborn Color Palette

my_palette = sns.color_palette("muted")
sns.barplot(x=field, y="abbrev", data=crashes, label=field, palette=my_palette)

Upvotes: 5

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