Python seaborn facetGrid: is it possible to set category row label location on the left

Question

When using Seaborn facetGrid charts. Is it possible to set the variable line label on the left (for example, as the first line of two-line subsets of y axes)?

The default location is at the top, as part of the subtitle header. unfortunately, the combined text sometimes becomes too long to fit legally into this crowded space. Then I tried to use the margin_titles = True parameter when creating an instance of the facetGrid object. But in this case, the variable line label is to the right of the legend, which may be uncomfortable too far from the graph.

So, possible easy ways to improve aesthetics in my bicentenary thought:

• Move field header inside legend if margin_titles = True and legend_out=True
• Allow the variable string label to appear to the left of the y axis label.
• Other ideas?

Sorry, did not score enough points to add an example chart.

Answer 1

Of course! Axis enumeration seems to work very well.

 import seaborn as sns import matplotlib.pyplot as plt sns.set(style='ticks', color_codes=True) tips = sns.load_dataset('tips') g = sns.FacetGrid(tips, col='time', row='sex') g = g.map(plt.scatter, 'total_bill', 'tip', edgecolor='w') for i, axes_row in enumerate(g.axes): for j, axes_col in enumerate(axes_row): row, col = axes_col.get_title().split('|') if i == 0: axes_col.set_title(col.strip()) else: axes_col.set_title('') if j == 0: ylabel = axes_col.get_ylabel() axes_col.set_ylabel(row.strip() + ' | ' + ylabel) plt.show()