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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 77

Seaborn showing x-tick labels overlapping

I am trying to make a box plot that looks like this. enter image description here

Now, there are a lot of tickmarks that I do not need and truly do not show any additional information. The code I am using is the following:

plot=sns.boxplot(y=MSE, x=Sim, 
                   width=0.5,
                   palette='colorblind')
plot=sns.stripplot(y=MSE, x=Sim, 
                  jitter=True, 
                  marker='o', 
                  alpha=0.15,
                  color='black')
plt.xlabel('xlabel')
plt.ylabel('ylabel')
plt.gca().invert_xaxis()

Where MSE and SIM are two numpy arrays of 400 elements each.

I reviewed some solutions that use locator_params and set_xticklabels. However, I want to know:

I hope my questions are clear enough.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3943

Answers (1)

StupidWolf
StupidWolf

Reputation: 46908

Not very sure what you have as Sim, if it is an array of floats, then they are converted to categorical before plotting. The thing you can do, since the labels are not useful, is to use a range of values thats as long as the y-values.

With that, it still overlaps a lot because you are trying to fit 400 x ticks onto the x-axis, and the font size are set by default to be something readable. For example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(15,6))

MSE = [np.random.normal(0,1,10) for i in range(100)]
Sim = np.arange(len(MSE))
g = sns.boxplot(y=MSE, x=Sim, width=0.5,palette='colorblind',ax=ax)

enter image description here

You can set the font size to be smaller and they don't overlap but I guess its hardly readable:

enter image description here

So like you said in your case, they are not useful, you can do:

ax.set(xticks=Sim[0::10])

Upvotes: 2

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