Move seaborn plot legend to a different position

Question

I m using factorplot kind  bar   with seaborn   The plot is fine except the legend is misplaced  too much to the right  text goes out of the plot s shaded area   How do I make seaborn place the legend somewhere else  such as in top-left instead of middle-right

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Modifying the example here   You can use legend out   False  import seaborn as sns sns set style  whitegrid    titanic   sns load dataset  titanic    g   sns factorplot  class    survived    sex                       data titanic  kind  bar                       size 6  palette  muted                      legend out False  g despine left True  g set ylabels  survival probability

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This is how I was able to move the legend to a particular place inside the plot and change the aspect and size of the plot   import matplotlib matplotlib use  Agg   import matplotlib pyplot as plt matplotlib style use  ggplot   import seaborn as sns sns set style  ticks    figure name    rater violinplot png  figure output path   output path   figure name  viol plot   sns factorplot x  Rater                           y  Confidence                           hue  Event Type                           data combo df                          palette  colorblind                          kind  violin                          size   10                         aspect   1 5                         legend False   viol plot ax legend loc 2  viol plot fig savefig figure output path        This worked for me to change the size and aspect of the plot as well as move the legend outside the plot area    import matplotlib matplotlib use  Agg   import matplotlib pyplot as plt matplotlib style use  ggplot   import seaborn as sns sns set style  ticks     figure name    rater violinplot png  figure output path   output path   figure name  viol plot   sns factorplot x  Rater                           y  Confidence                           hue  Event Type                           data combo df                          palette  colorblind                          kind  violin                          size   10                         aspect   1 5                         legend out True   viol plot fig savefig figure output path        I figured this out from mwaskom s answer here and Fernando Hernandez s answer here

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Building on  user308827 s answer  you can use legend False in factorplot and specify the legend through matplotlib   import seaborn as sns import matplotlib pyplot as plt sns set style  whitegrid    titanic   sns load dataset  titanic    g   sns factorplot  class    survived    sex                      data titanic  kind  bar                      size 6  palette  muted                      legend False  g despine left True  plt legend loc  upper left   g set ylabels  survival probability

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Check out the docs here  https   matplotlib org users legend guide html legend-location  adding this simply worked to bring legend out of the plot   plt legend bbox to anchor  1 05  1   loc 2  borderaxespad 0

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it seems you can directly call  g   sns factorplot  quot class quot    quot survived quot    quot sex quot                   data titanic  kind  quot bar quot                   size 6  palette  quot muted quot                  legend out False   g  legend set bbox to anchor   7  1 1

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If you wish to customize your legend  just use the add legend method  It takes the same parameters as matplotlib plt legend   import seaborn as sns sns set style  whitegrid    titanic   sns load dataset  titanic    g   sns factorplot  class    survived    sex                       data titanic  kind  bar                       size 6  palette  muted                      legend out False  g despine left True  g set ylabels  survival probability   g add legend bbox to anchor  1 05  0   loc 2  borderaxespad 0

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