How to resize a seaborn catplot

Question

For resizing Seaborn figure-level plots, I've been following this convention:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10,5))
sns.catplot(x='xdata', y='ydata', data=df, kind='swarm', ax=ax)

This works for the catplot as well, however it generates a second, completely blank plot. Is this a bug in Seaborn (or am i doing something wrong)? Is there any way to properly resize this plot without getting a second blank plot (when i say blank plot i mean a plot with no data just same axis labels as the first plot)?

Answer 1

Consider not calling subplots and use height and aspect arguments as this seaborn factorplot solution shows where aspect is the width multiple of height, likely to keep dimensions consistent:

sns.catplot(x='xdata', y='ydata', data=df, kind='swarm', height=5, aspect=2)

From help(sns.catplot) output:

height : scalar, optional
        Height (in inches) of each facet. See also: ``aspect``.

aspect : scalar, optional
    Aspect ratio of each facet, so that ``aspect * height`` gives the width
    of each facet in inches.

To demonstrate with random data:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

np.random.sample(71318)
df = pd.DataFrame({'xdata': np.random.choice(['pandas', 'r', 'julia', 'sas', 'spss', 'stata'], 100),
                   'ydata': np.random.choice(range(1,6), 100)})

sns.catplot(x='xdata', y='ydata', data=df, kind='swarm', height=5, aspect=2)

plt.show()
plt.clf()
plt.close()