Seaborn: countplot orient not working

Created on 24 Jul 2015 · 5Comments · Source: mwaskom/seaborn

Hi,
The code in IPython notebook:

%matplotlib inline
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
df = pd.DataFrame([[2], [2], [1], [1], [1], [3]])
sns.countplot(x=0, data=df, orient='v')
sns.countplot(x=0, data=df, orient='h')

produces exactly the same output plots. This means that the option for orienting is not working.

Source

guma44

Most helpful comment

You have to do

sns.countplot(y=0, data=df)

(that is, y=0 instead of x=0. When plotting with long-form data, the assignment of variables in the dataframe to plot axes supersedes the orient keyword argument.

mwaskom on 24 Jul 2015

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You have to do

sns.countplot(y=0, data=df)

(that is, y=0 instead of x=0. When plotting with long-form data, the assignment of variables in the dataframe to plot axes supersedes the orient keyword argument.

mwaskom on 24 Jul 2015

👍9

Thanks a lot, I did not expected :).

guma44 on 27 Jul 2015

Hey, thanks a lot. It helped me today!