How do I change the figure size for a seaborn plot?

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Michael Grazebrook picture Michael Grazebrook · Jul 23, 2015 · Viewed 443.1k times · Source

How do I change the size of my image so it's suitable for printing?

For example, I'd like to use to A4 paper, whose dimensions are 11.7 inches by 8.27 inches in landscape orientation.

Answer

student picture student · Dec 23, 2017

You can also set figure size by passing dictionary to rc parameter with key 'figure.figsize' in seaborn set method:

import seaborn as sns

sns.set(rc={'figure.figsize':(11.7,8.27)})

Other alternative may be to use figure.figsize of rcParams to set figure size as below:

from matplotlib import rcParams

# figure size in inches
rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 11.7,8.27

More details can be found in matplotlib documentation

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