Change the title of factor plot in seaborn

aesthetics, python, seaborn

Solution

These values are just taken from the field in the input DataFrame that you use as the `col` or `hue` variable in the factorgrid plot. So the correct thing to do would be to set the values as you want them in the original DataFrame and then pass that to `seaborn.factorplot`.

Alternatively, once you have plotted, the function returns an object of class `FacetGrid` that has a method called `set_titles`. This allows you to change the titles after plotting more flexibly, but it also is fundamentally based on the values in the DataFrame you passed into the function. See the docstring of that method for more detal.

The final option is to set the titles manually using matplotlib commands. The `FacetGrid` object that gets returned also has an `axes` attribute, which is a 2 dimensional array of the maptlotlib Axes in the figure. You can loop through this and set the titles to whatever you want:

g = sns.factorplot(...)
titles = ["foo", "bar", "buz"]
for ax, title in zip(g.axes.flat, titles):
    ax.set_title(title)

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