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How to put the legend outside the plot
I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, as the size of the figure gets ...
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How to change legend fontsize with matplotlib.pyplot
Simple question here: I'm trying to get the size of my legend using matplotlib.pyplot to be smaller (i.e., the text to be smaller). The code I'm using goes something like this:
plot.figure()
plot....
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Adding a matplotlib legend
How can one create a legend for a line graph in Matplotlib's PyPlot without creating any extra variables?
Please consider the graphing script below:
if __name__ == '__main__':
PyPlot.plot(length, ...
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Secondary axis with twinx(): how to add to legend
I have a plot with two y-axes, using twinx(). I also give labels to the lines, and want to show them with legend(), but I only succeed to get the labels of one axis in the legend:
import numpy as np
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How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
I am plotting the same type of information, but for different countries, with multiple subplots with Matplotlib. That is, I have nine plots on a 3x3 grid, all with the same for lines (of course, ...
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Moving matplotlib legend outside of the axis makes it cutoff by the figure box
I'm familiar with the following questions:
Matplotlib savefig with a legend outside the plot
How to put the legend out of the plot
It seems that the answers in these questions have the luxury of ...
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How to manually create a legend
I am using matplotlib and I would like to manually add items to the legend that are a color and a label. I am adding data to to the plot to specifying there would lead to a lot of duplicates.
My ...
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Global legend and title aside subplots
I've started with matplot and managed some basic plots, but now I find it hard to discover how to do some stuff I need now :(
My actual question is how to place a global title and global legend on a ...
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matplotlib: colorbars and its text labels
I'd like to create a colorbar legend for a heatmap, such that the labels are in the center of each discrete color. Example borrowed from here:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from ...
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Stop matplotlib repeating labels in legend
Here is a very simplified example:
xvalues = [2,3,4,6]
for x in xvalues:
plt.axvline(x,color='b',label='xvalues')
plt.legend()
The legend will now show 'xvalues' as a blue line 4 times in the ...
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Show only certain items in legend
I currently am plotting a stacked bar graph of a large amount of taxonomic data, and only wish to show significant species in the legend (out of ~500 I wish to show ~25). Is there a simple way to do ...
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How is order of items in matplotlib legend determined?
I am having to reorder items in a legend, when I don't think I should have to. I try:
from pylab import *
clf()
ax=gca()
ht=ax.add_patch(Rectangle((1,1),1,1,color='r',label='Top',alpha=.1))
h1=ax.bar(...
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How to edit a seaborn legend title and labels for figure-level functions
I've created this plot using Seaborn and a pandas dataframe (data):
My code:
import seaborn as sns
g = sns.lmplot('credibility', 'percentWatched', data=data, hue='millennial', markers=["+",...
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How to place two different legends on the same graph
I have a plot where different colors are used for different parameters, and where different line styles are used for different algorithms. The goal is to compare the results of the different ...
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How to specify legend position in graph coordinates
I am aware of the bbox_to_anchor keyword and this thread, which very helpfully suggests how to manually place the legend:
How to put the legend out of the plot
However, I'd like to use the ...
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