Image as axis values

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Is there a way to keep images as axis values? Two similar questions here and here does not answer my question.

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
titanic = sns.load_dataset("titanic")
sns.catplot(x="sex", y="survived", hue="class", kind="bar", data=titanic)

I would like to replace the male and female axis values with the corresponding image present in the image link. Can we map the axis values to the image links?

Male:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSuGDLqvyU56RbTEFQP3ohzx9d0vJv-nQOk1g&usqp=CAU

Female:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRnSlVrt4o9yHIHnJ7H-cPi_fhOC4bePnyOoA&usqp=CAU

Very unclear why those questions don't answer your question. They look like exactly what you're trying to do. Did you try to implement the approach? — BigBen, Oct 21 '20 at 19:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '20 at 19:37

The answer using an OffsetBox in the questions you linked is probably the best option

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.offsetbox import OffsetImage, AnchoredOffsetbox

titanic = sns.load_dataset("titanic")
images = ["https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSuGDLqvyU56RbTEFQP3ohzx9d0vJv-nQOk1g&usqp=CAU",
          "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRnSlVrt4o9yHIHnJ7H-cPi_fhOC4bePnyOoA&usqp=CAU"]
pos = [0,1]

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax = sns.barplot(x="sex", y="survived", hue="class", data=titanic)
ax.set_xticklabels([])
for m,p in zip(images,pos):
    image = plt.imread(m)
    im = OffsetImage(image, zoom=0.1)
    ab = AnchoredOffsetbox(loc='upper center', child=im, 
                           bbox_to_anchor=(p,0), bbox_transform=ax.get_xaxis_transform(),
                           frameon=False)
    ax.add_artist(ab)

plt.tight_layout()

Image as axis values

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