How to save a plot in Seaborn with Python

Question

I have a Pandas dataframe and try to save a plot in a png file. However, it seems that something doesn't work as it should. This is my code:

import pandas
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

sns.set(style='ticks')

df = pandas.read_csv("this_is_my_csv_file.csv")
plot = sns.distplot(df[['my_column_to_plot']])
plot.savefig("myfig.png")

And I have this error:

AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'savefig'

score 23 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 15 '17 at 04:51

You could save any seaborn figure like this.

Suppose If you want to create a violin plot to show the salary distribution gender wise. You could do it like this and will save it using the get_figure method.

ax = sns.violinplot(x="Gender", y="Salary", hue="Degree", data=job_data)
#Returns the :class:~matplotlib.figure.Figure instance the artist belongs to
fig = ax.get_figure()
fig.savefig('gender_salary.png')

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '16 at 09:38

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You could use plt.savefig because your picture will come up when you'll call plt.show()

answered Jan 12 '16 at 09:38

Anton Protopopov

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@Tasos it can be that they made a Figure object, with `fig = plt.Figure()`. Then you can save the figure with `fig.savefig()` – Mathias711 Jan 12 '16 at 09:48

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 21 '16 at 15:32

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Use plt.savefig('yourTitle.png')

If you want to pass a variable:

plt.savefig("yourTitleDataSet{0}.png".format(dataset))

edited Dec 21 '16 at 15:32

matsjoyce

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answered Jan 14 '16 at 17:57

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How to save a plot in Seaborn with Python

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