How do you change the size of figures drawn with matplotlib?

Question

How do you change the size of figure drawn with matplotlib?

Answer 1

Try commenting out the fig = ... line

%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

N = 50
x = np.random.rand(N)
y = np.random.rand(N)
area = np.pi * (15 * np.random.rand(N))**2

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(18, 18))
plt.scatter(x, y, s=area, alpha=0.5)
plt.show()