Getting span of built-up points from the marine fin

Question

I have the following data:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# Generate dummy data.
a = np.random.random(75)
b = np.random.random(75) - 0.6
c = np.random.random(75) + 0.75 

# Collate into a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': a, 'b': b, 'c': c}) 
df.columns = [list(['WT', 'MUT', 'WTxMUT']), list(['Parent', 'Parent', 'Offspring'])]
df.columns.names = ['Genotype', 'Status']
df_melt = pd.melt(df) 

and I draw it on the seashore:

import seaborn as sb
sb.swarmplot(data = df_melt, x = "Status", y = "value", hue = "Genotype")

How to get x-span for each group? What is the horizontal swarmplot scroll range for a parent group, for example?

Answer 1

You can get information from collectionsthat are created using swarmplot.

swarmplotactually returns an instance of matplotlib Axes, and from there we can find the one created PathCollections. To get positions, we can use .get_offsets().

Here is your example, modified to find and print the limits of the swarm, and then use them to build a window around the swarm.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sb
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle

# Generate dummy data.
a = np.random.random(75)
b = np.random.random(75) - 0.6
c = np.random.random(75) + 0.75 

# Collate into a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': a, 'b': b, 'c': c}) 
df.columns = [list(['WT', 'MUT', 'WTxMUT']), list(['Parent', 'Parent', 'Offspring'])]
df.columns.names = ['Genotype', 'Status']
df_melt = pd.melt(df) 

ax = sb.swarmplot(data = df_melt, x = "Status", y = "value", hue = "Genotype")

def getdatalim(coll):
    x,y = np.array(coll.get_offsets()).T
    try:
        print 'xmin={}, xmax={}, ymin={}, ymax={}'.format(
                x.min(), x.max(), y.min(), y.max())
        rect = Rectangle((x.min(),y.min()),x.ptp(),y.ptp(),edgecolor='k',facecolor='None',lw=3)
        ax.add_patch(rect)
    except ValueError:
        pass

getdatalim(ax.collections[0]) # "Parent"
getdatalim(ax.collections[1]) # "Offspring"

plt.show()

which prints:

xmin=-0.107313729132, xmax=0.10661092707, ymin=-0.598534246847, ymax=0.980441247759
xmin=0.942829146473, xmax=1.06105941656, ymin=0.761277608688, ymax=1.74729717464

And here is the figure: