changing size of seaborn plots and matplotlib library plots in a common way

Question

from pylab import rcParams
rcParams[\'figure.figsize\'] = (10, 10)

This works fine for histogram plots but not for factor plots. sns.factorplot (.....

Answer 1

The figure size can be modified by first creating a figure and axis and passing this as a parameter to the seaborn plot:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns       

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 10))

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'product' : ['A', 'A', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'C', 'C'], 
    'close' : [1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0],
    'counts' : [3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2]})

sns.factorplot(y='counts', x='product', hue='close', data=df, kind='bar', palette='muted', ax=ax)
plt.close(2)    # close empty figure
plt.show()

When using an Axis grids type plot, seaborn will automatically create another figure. A workaround is to close the empty second figure.