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How to set seaborn jointplot axis to log scale


How to set axis to logarithmic scale in a seaborn jointplot? I can't find any log arguments in seaborn.jointplot

Notebook

import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("https://storage.googleapis.com/mledu-datasets/california_housing_train.csv", sep=",")

g = sns.jointplot(x="total_bedrooms",
              y="median_house_value",
              data = df,
              kind="reg",
              logx=True
              )

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Solution

  • After you create the plot, you can set the axes to be log scale, using matplotlib's ax.set_xscale('log') and ax.set_yscale('log').

    In this case, we need to get the axis from the JointGrid created by jointplot. If you catch the JointGrid returned as g, then the joint axis is g.ax_joint.

    For example:

    g = sns.jointplot(x="predictions",
                  y="targets",
                  data = calibration_data,
                  kind="reg",
                  logx=True,
                  )
    
    g.ax_joint.set_xscale('log')
    g.ax_joint.set_yscale('log')