How can I overlay two graphs in Seaborn?

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Davoud Taghawi-Nejad picture Davoud Taghawi-Nejad · Oct 2, 2015 · Viewed 68.5k times · Source

How can I overlay two graphs in Seaborn? I have two columns in my data I would like to have them in the same graph. How can I do it preserving the labeling for both graphs.

Answer

Paul H picture Paul H · Oct 2, 2015

seaborn function that operate on a single Axes can take one as an argument.

For instance, the docs to seaborn.kdeplot include:

ax : matplotlib axis, optional
    Axis to plot on, otherwise uses current axis

So if you did:

df = function_to_load_my_data()
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

You could then do:

seaborn.kdeplot(df['col1'], ax=ax)
seaborn.kdeplot(df['col2'], ax=ax)

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