Questions tagged [legend]
A graph legend is commonly used when plotting several sets of data within the same diagram. The legend associates each plot with its corresponding data.
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Making a Legend/Key in GraphViz
I’d like to include a legend or key in my GraphViz diagram. I’m having trouble figuring out what code to use, though. I also want to put it in a corner, but the only coord I know for sure is the ...
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Setting a fixed size for points in legend
I'm making some scatter plots and I want to set the size of the points in the legend to a fixed, equal value.
Right now I have this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
def rand_data(...
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creating over 20 unique legend colors using matplotlib
I am plotting 20 different lines on a single plot using matplotlib. I use a for loop for plotting and label every line with its key and then use the legend function
for key in dict.keys():
plot(x,...
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increase the linewidth of the legend lines in matplotlib
I know that if I change the linewidth of a line, that is automatically updated in the legend.
However I would like to just change the legend linewidth without affecting the plot.
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Set legend symbol opacity
I'm working on a plot with translucent 'x' markers (20% alpha). How do I make the marker appear at 100% opacity in the legend?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot_date( x = xaxis, y = yaxis, ...
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How to set font size of Matplotlib axis Legend?
I have a code like this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.pyplot import *
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
fontP = FontProperties()
fontP.set_size('xx-small')
fig=...
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Control ggplot2 legend look without affecting the plot
I'm plotting lines with ggplot2 like this:
ggplot(iris, aes(Petal.Width,Petal.Length,color=Species)) + geom_line() + theme_bw()
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I find legend marks to be small so I want them to be bigger. If I ...
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Change main plot legend label text
So far I have been able to label the subplots just fine but I'm having an issue with the main one.
Here's the relevant part of my code:
data_BS_P = data[channels[0]]
data_BS_R = data[channels[1]]
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How do I assign multiple legend labels at once?
I have the following dataset:
x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
y = [ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
[9, 8, 7, 6, 5] ]
Now I plot it with:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(x, y)
However, ...
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Remove line through legend marker with .plot
I have a matplotlib plot generated with the following code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot
Fig, ax = pyplot.subplots()
for i, (mark, color) in enumerate(zip(
['s', 'o', 'D', 'v'], ['r', 'g', ...
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plot legends without border and with white background
I have a legend in a plot with a line (from an abline-statement) going through it. How can I achieve that the abline gets invisible in proximity of the legend? This should be achievable by setting the ...
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R ggplot2 legend inside the figure
So, I have the following data.frame, and I want to generate two plots in one graph for yval vs. xval, for each zval and type tp. The lef
> df
xval yval se zval cond
1 1.0 ...
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Styling part of label in legend in matplotlib
Is it possible to have part of the text of a legend in a particular style, let's say, bold or italic?
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How can I remove the legend title in ggplot2?
I have a question concerning the legend in ggplot2.
Say I have a hypothetical dataset about mean carrot length for two different colours at two farms:
carrots<-NULL
carrots$Farm<-rep(c("X","Y")...
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Reverse the order of a legend
I use the following code to plot the bar graph and need to present a legend in reverse order. How can I do it?
colorsArr = plt.cm.BuPu(np.linspace(0, 0.5, len(C2)))
p = numpy.empty(len(C2), dtype=...
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