Dot plot with several variables#
seaborn components used: set_theme()
, load_dataset()
, PairGrid
, despine()
import seaborn as sns
sns.set_theme(style="whitegrid")
# Load the dataset
crashes = sns.load_dataset("car_crashes")
# Make the PairGrid
g = sns.PairGrid(crashes.sort_values("total", ascending=False),
x_vars=crashes.columns[:-3], y_vars=["abbrev"],
height=10, aspect=.25)
# Draw a dot plot using the stripplot function
g.map(sns.stripplot, size=10, orient="h", jitter=False,
palette="flare_r", linewidth=1, edgecolor="w")
# Use the same x axis limits on all columns and add better labels
g.set(xlim=(0, 25), xlabel="Crashes", ylabel="")
# Use semantically meaningful titles for the columns
titles = ["Total crashes", "Speeding crashes", "Alcohol crashes",
"Not distracted crashes", "No previous crashes"]
for ax, title in zip(g.axes.flat, titles):
# Set a different title for each axes
ax.set(title=title)
# Make the grid horizontal instead of vertical
ax.xaxis.grid(False)
ax.yaxis.grid(True)
sns.despine(left=True, bottom=True)