How to change a figure's size in Python Seaborn package

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Vikram Josyula picture Vikram Josyula · Oct 30, 2015 · Viewed 58.4k times · Source

I'm having trouble increasing the size of my plot figures using Seaborn (imported as sns). I'm using sns.pairplot to plot columns of a data frame against one another. 

    %matplotlib inline
    plt.rcParams['figure.figsize']=10,10
    columns=list(df.columns.values)
    g=sns.pairplot(df, kind='reg', x_vars=columns,y_vars = ['Column 1'])

The plots populate with data just fine, but the figure size is too small.

I thought plot.rCParams['figure.figsize'] would control how large the figure is, but it doesn't seem to take effect. I've tried a few different suggestions from online boards, but nothing seems to work.

Answer

Martin Alexandersson picture Martin Alexandersson · Sep 21, 2017

sns.pairplot "Returns the underlying PairGrid instance for further tweaking" ...for instance changing the figure size:

g=sns.pairplot(df, kind='reg', x_vars=columns,y_vars = ['Column 1'])
g.fig.set_size_inches(15,15)

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