matplotlib/seaborn: first and last row cut in half of heatmap plot

Question

When plotting heatmaps with seaborn (and correlation matrices with matplotlib) the first and the last row is cut in halve. This happens also when I run this minimal code exa

Answer 1

Fixed using the above and setting the heatmap limits manually.

First

ax = sns.heatmap(...

checked the current axes with

ax.get_ylim()
(5.5, 0.5)

Fixed with

ax.set_ylim(6.0, 0)