Setting plot background colour in Seaborn

Question

I am using Seaborn to plot some data in Pandas.

I am making some very large plots (factorplots).

To see them, I am using some visualisation faciliti

Answer 1

In new versions of seaborn you can also use axes_style() and set_style() to quickly set the plot style to one of the predefined styles: darkgrid, whitegrid, dark, white, ticks

st = axes_style("whitegrid")

set_style("ticks", {"xtick.major.size": 8, "ytick.major.size": 8})

More info in seaborn docs