Seaborn and mplcursors

Question

I have some data that I want to plot on a scatter chart, and display the associated label for each point. The data looks like

xlist=[1,2,3,4]
ylist=[2,3,4,5]
labels=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

I can plot using Seaborn and tried to use mplcursor, but the displayed labels are the x and y instead of labels.

sns.scatterplot(x, y)
mplcursors.cursor(hover=True)

How can I make it display the labels, instead of (x, y)?

Answer 1

You will need to read the mplcursors documentation and copy the example on that matter from it to your code. Let me do that for you:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import mplcursors

xlist=[1,2,3,4]
ylist=[2,3,4,5]
labels=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

sns.scatterplot(xlist, ylist)

cursor = mplcursors.cursor(hover=True)
cursor.connect(
    "add", lambda sel: sel.annotation.set_text(labels[sel.target.index]))

plt.show()