I currently have a seaborn box plot that looks like this:
Each grouping ('hue') on the x axis are all touching each other.
The code for this boxplot is this:
bp_all = sns.boxplot(x='X_Values', y='Y_values', hue='Groups123', data=mydataframe, width=0.8, showfliers=False, linewidth=4.5, palette='coolwarm')
Is there any way to create a small space between the 3 groups so that they are not touching each other?
I found a solution posted by another user. This function is used to adjust the width of all the objects in your created figure by a factor of your choosing
from matplotlib.patches import PathPatch
def adjust_box_widths(g, fac):
"""
Adjust the withs of a seaborn-generated boxplot.
"""
# iterating through Axes instances
for ax in g.axes:
# iterating through axes artists:
for c in ax.get_children():
# searching for PathPatches
if isinstance(c, PathPatch):
# getting current width of box:
p = c.get_path()
verts = p.vertices
verts_sub = verts[:-1]
xmin = np.min(verts_sub[:, 0])
xmax = np.max(verts_sub[:, 0])
xmid = 0.5*(xmin+xmax)
xhalf = 0.5*(xmax - xmin)
# setting new width of box
xmin_new = xmid-fac*xhalf
xmax_new = xmid+fac*xhalf
verts_sub[verts_sub[:, 0] == xmin, 0] = xmin_new
verts_sub[verts_sub[:, 0] == xmax, 0] = xmax_new
# setting new width of median line
for l in ax.lines:
if np.all(l.get_xdata() == [xmin, xmax]):
l.set_xdata([xmin_new, xmax_new])
For example:
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15, 13))
bp = sns.boxplot(#insert data and everything)
adjust_box_widths(fig, 0.9)
