Rotate label text in seaborn factorplot

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I have a simple factorplot  import seaborn as sns g   sns factorplot  name    miss ratio    policy   dodge  2       linestyles   none    none    none    none    data df df  level      2       The problem is that the x labels all run together  making them unreadable  How do you rotate the text so that the labels are readable

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I had a problem with the answer by  mwaskorn  namely that   g set xticklabels rotation 30    fails  because this also requires the labels  A bit easier than the answer by  Aman is to just add  plt xticks rotation 45

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Any seaborn plots suported by facetgrid won t work with  e g  catplot  g set xticklabels rotation 30    however barplot  countplot  etc  will work as they are not supported by facetgrid  Below will work for them  g set xticklabels g get xticklabels    rotation 30   Also  in case you have 2 graphs overlayed on top of each other  try set xticklabels on graph which supports it

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You can also use plt setp as follows   import matplotlib pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns  plot sns barplot data df   x      y      plt setp plot get xticklabels    rotation 90    to rotate the labels 90 degrees

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This is still a matplotlib object  Try this       lt your code here gt  locs  labels   plt xticks   plt setp labels  rotation 45

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For a seaborn heatmap  you can rotate these using  based on  Aman s answer   pandas frame   pd DataFrame data  index names  columns names  heatmap   seaborn heatmap pandas frame  loc  labels   plt xticks   heatmap set xticklabels labels  rotation 45  heatmap set yticklabels labels   -1   rotation 45    reversed order for y

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If anyone wonders how to this for clustermap CorrGrids  part of a given seaborn example    import seaborn as sns import matplotlib pyplot as plt sns set context  paper   font  monospace      Load the datset of correlations between cortical brain networks df   sns load dataset  brain networks   header  0  1  2   index col 0  corrmat   df corr      Set up the matplotlib figure f  ax   plt subplots figsize  12  9      Draw the heatmap using seaborn g sns clustermap corrmat  vmax  8  square True  rotation   90  for i  ax in enumerate g fig axes        getting all axes of the fig object      ax set xticklabels ax get xticklabels    rotation   rotation    g fig show

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Aman is correct that you can use normal matplotlib commands  but this is also built into the FacetGrid   import seaborn as sns planets   sns load dataset  planets   g   sns factorplot  year   data planets  aspect 1 5  kind  count   color  b   g set xticklabels rotation 30      There are some comments and another answer claiming this  doesn t work   however  anyone can run the code as written here and see that it does work  The other answer does not provide a reproducible example of what isn t working  making it very difficult to address  but my guess is that people are trying to apply this solution to the output of functions that return an Axes object instead of a Facet Grid  These are different things  and the Axes set xticklabels   method does indeed require a list of labels and cannot simply change the properties of the existing labels on the Axes  The lesson is that it s important to pay attention to what kind of objects you are working with

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