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Seaborn Box Plot X-Axis Too Crowded

Good Day,

See the attached image for reference. The x-axis on the Seaborn bar chart I created has overlapping text and is too crowded. How do I fix this?

The data source is on Kaggle and I was following along with this article: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-quick-guide-on-descriptive-statistics-using-pandas-and-seaborn-2aadc7395f32

Here is the code I used:

 sns.set(style = 'darkgrid')
 plt.figure(figsize = (20, 10))
 ax = sns.countplot(x = 'Regionname', data = df)

Seaborn X-axis too crowded

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Solution

  • You are not using the figure size you set on the previous line. Try

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20, 10))  # generate a figure and return figure and axis handle

sns.countplot(x="Regionname", data=df, ax=ax)  # passing the `ax` to seaborn so it knows about it

    An extra thing after this might be to rotate the labels:

    ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=60)