How to remove or hide x-axis labels from a seaborn / matplotlib plot
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After creating the boxplot, use
.set()
. -
.set(xticklabels=[])
should remove tick labels.- This doesn't work if you use
.set_title()
, but you can use.set(title='')
.
- This doesn't work if you use
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.set(xlabel=None)
should remove the axis label. -
.tick_params(bottom=False)
will remove the ticks. - Similarly, for the y-axis: How to remove or hide y-axis ticklabels from a matplotlib / seaborn plot?
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 1)
g1 = sb.boxplot(x="user_type", y="Seconds", data=df, color = default_color, ax = ax[0], sym='')
g1.set(xticklabels=[])
g1.set(title='User-Type (0=Non-Subscriber, 1=Subscriber)')
g1.set(xlabel=None)
g2 = sb.boxplot(x="member_gender", y="Seconds", data=df, color = default_color, ax = ax[1], sym='')
g2.set(xticklabels=[])
g2.set(title='Gender (0=Male, 1=Female, 2=Other)')
g2.set(xlabel=None)
Example
With xticks and xlabel
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# load data
exercise = sns.load_dataset('exercise')
pen = sns.load_dataset('penguins')
# create figures
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(8, 8))
# plot data
g1 = sns.boxplot(x='time', y='pulse', hue='kind', data=exercise, ax=ax[0])
g2 = sns.boxplot(x='species', y='body_mass_g', hue='sex', data=pen, ax=ax[1])
plt.show()
Without xticks and xlabel
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(8, 8))
g1 = sns.boxplot(x='time', y='pulse', hue='kind', data=exercise, ax=ax[0])
g1.set(xticklabels=[]) # remove the tick labels
g1.set(title='Exercise: Pulse by Time for Exercise Type') # add a title
g1.set(xlabel=None) # remove the axis label
g2 = sns.boxplot(x='species', y='body_mass_g', hue='sex', data=pen, ax=ax[1])
g2.set(xticklabels=[])
g2.set(title='Penguins: Body Mass by Species for Gender')
g2.set(xlabel=None)
g2.tick_params(bottom=False) # remove the ticks
plt.show()
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Updated on January 28, 2022Comments
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LaLaTi over 2 years
I have a boxplot and need to remove the x-axis ('user_type' and 'member_gender') label. How do I do this given the below format?
sb.boxplot(x="user_type", y="Seconds", data=df, color = default_color, ax = ax[0,0], sym='').set_title('User-Type (0=Non-Subscriber, 1=Subscriber)') sb.boxplot(x="member_gender", y="Seconds", data=df, color = default_color, ax = ax[1,0], sym='').set_title('Gender (0=Male, 1=Female, 2=Other)')