Rotate tick labels for seaborn barplot
PythonMatplotlibSeabornPython Problem Overview
I am trying to display a chart with rotated x-axis labels, but the chart is not displaying.
import seaborn as sns
%matplotlib inline
yellow='#FFB11E'
by_school=sns.barplot(x ='Organization Name',y ='Score',data = combined.sort('Organization Name'),color=yellow,ci=None)
At this point I can see the image, but after I set the xticklabel, I don't see the image anymore only an object reference. (I would post the image, but I don't enough reputation :()
by_school.set_xticklabels('Organization Name',rotation=45)
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x3971a6a0>
A similar question is posted here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26540035/rotate-label-text-in-seaborn-factorplot but the solution is not working.
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
You need a different method call, namely .set_rotation for each ticklables.
Since you already have the ticklabels, just change their rotations:
for item in by_school.get_xticklabels():
item.set_rotation(45)
barplot returns a matplotlib.axes object (as of seaborn 0.6.0), therefore you have to rotate the labels this way. In other cases, when the method returns a FacetGrid object, refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26540035/rotate-label-text-in-seaborn-factorplot?lq=1
Solution 2 - Python
You can rotate seaborn xticks like so:
sns.barplot(x='Organization Name', y='Score', data=df)
plt.xticks(rotation=70)
plt.tight_layout()
Solution 3 - Python
Use the following code statement:
by_school.set_xticklabels(by_school.get_xticklabels(),
rotation=90,
horizontalalignment='right')
Solution 4 - Python
If you come here to rotate the labels for a seaborn.heatmap, the following should work (based on @Aman's answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26540035/rotate-label-text-in-seaborn-factorplot)
pandas_frame = pd.DataFrame(data, index=names, columns=names)
heatmap = seaborn.heatmap(pandas_frame)
loc, labels = plt.xticks()
heatmap.set_xticklabels(labels, rotation=45)
heatmap.set_yticklabels(labels[::-1], rotation=45) # reversed order for y
Solution 5 - Python
This worked for me:
g.fig.autofmt_xdate()