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Using Seaborn Styles: Chris Mo

This document discusses customizing plots with Seaborn and matplotlib. It introduces Seaborn styles that can override matplotlib defaults, and shows how to set styles, palettes, and colors. It also demonstrates passing a matplotlib Axes object to Seaborn to enable further customizations like labels, limits, and combining multiple plots. The document provides examples of setting styles, colors, palettes, customizing Axes, and combining plots.

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Using Seaborn Styles: Chris Mo

This document discusses customizing plots with Seaborn and matplotlib. It introduces Seaborn styles that can override matplotlib defaults, and shows how to set styles, palettes, and colors. It also demonstrates passing a matplotlib Axes object to Seaborn to enable further customizations like labels, limits, and combining multiple plots. The document provides examples of setting styles, colors, palettes, customizing Axes, and combining plots.

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Using Seaborn

Styles
I N T E R M E D I AT E D ATA V I S U A L I Z AT I O N W I T H S E A B O R N

Chris Mo
Instructor
Setting Styles
Seaborn has default con gurations that can be applied with
sns.set()

These styles can override matplotlib and pandas plots as well

sns.set()
df['Tuition'].plot.hist()

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Theme examples with sns.set_style()
for style in ['white','dark','whitegrid','darkgrid',
'ticks']:
sns.set_style(style)
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'])
plt.show()

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Removing axes with despine()
Sometimes plots are improved by removing elements

Seaborn contains a shortcut for removing the spines of a plot

sns.set_style('white')
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'])
sns.despine(left=True)

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Let's practice!
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Colors in Seaborn
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Chris Mo
Instructor
Defining a color for a plot
Seaborn supports assigning colors to plots using matplotlib
color codes

sns.set(color_codes=True)
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'], color='g')

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Palettes
Seaborn uses the set_palette() function to de ne a pale e

for p in sns.palettes.SEABORN_PALETTES:
sns.set_palette(p)
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'])

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Displaying Palettes
sns.palplot() function displays a pale e

sns.color_palette() returns the current pale e

for p in sns.palettes.SEABORN_PALETTES:
sns.set_palette(p)
sns.palplot(sns.color_palette())
plt.show()

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Defining Custom Palettes
Circular colors = when the Diverging colors = when
data is not ordered both the low and high
values are interesting
sns.palplot(sns.color_palette(
"Paired", 12))
sns.palplot(sns.color_palette(
"BrBG", 12))

Sequential colors = when


the data has a consistent
range from high to low

sns.palplot(sns.color_palette(
"Blues", 12))

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Let's practice!
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Customizing with
matplotlib
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Chris Mo
Instructor
Matplotlib Axes
Most customization available through matplotlib Axes
objects

Axes can be passed to seaborn functions

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'], ax=ax)
ax.set(xlabel="Tuition 2013-14")

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Further Customizations
The axes object supports many common customizations

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
sns.distplot(df['Tuition'], ax=ax)
ax.set(xlabel="Tuition 2013-14",
ylabel="Distribution", xlim=(0, 50000),
title="2013-14 Tuition and Fees Distribution")

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Combining Plots
It is possible to combine and con gure multiple plots

fig, (ax0, ax1) = plt.subplots(


nrows=1,ncols=2, sharey=True, figsize=(7,4))

sns.distplot(df['Tuition'], ax=ax0)
sns.distplot(df.query(
'State == "MN"')['Tuition'], ax=ax1)

ax1.set(xlabel="Tuition (MN)", xlim=(0, 70000))


ax1.axvline(x=20000, label='My Budget', linestyle='--')
ax1.legend()

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Combining Plots

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Let's practice!
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