How To Rotate Seaborn Barplot X-axis Tick Labels

I'm trying to get a barplot to rotate it's X Labels in 45° to make them readable (as is, there's overlap). len(genero) is 7, and len(filmes_por_genero) is 20 I'm using a MovieLens

Solution 1:

• Data from MovieLens 25M Dataset at MovieLens

import pandas as pd
import mathplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
sns.set_style("whitegrid")

# data
df = pd.read_csv('ml-25m/movies.csv')

print(df.head())

   movieId                               title                                       genres
0        1                    Toy Story (1995)  Adventure|Animation|Children|Comedy|Fantasy
1        2                      Jumanji (1995)                   Adventure|Children|Fantasy
2        3             Grumpier Old Men (1995)                               Comedy|Romance
3        4            Waiting to Exhale (1995)                         Comedy|Drama|Romance
4        5  Father of the Bride Part II (1995)                                       Comedy

# clean genres
df['genres'] = df['genres'].str.split('|')
df = df.explode('genres').reset_index(drop=True)

print(df.head())

   movieId             title     genres
0        1  Toy Story (1995)  Adventure
1        1  Toy Story (1995)  Animation
2        1  Toy Story (1995)   Children
3        1  Toy Story (1995)     Comedy
4        1  Toy Story (1995)    Fantasy

Genres Counts

gc = df.genres.value_counts().to_frame()

print(genre_count)

                    genres
Drama                25606
Comedy               16870
Thriller              8654
Romance               7719
Action                7348
Horror                5989
Documentary           5605
Crime                 5319
(no genres listed)    5062
Adventure             4145
Sci-Fi                3595
Children              2935
Animation             2929
Mystery               2925
Fantasy               2731
War                   1874
Western               1399
Musical               1054
Film-Noir              353
IMAX                   195

Plot: sns.barplot

With ax

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 6))
sns.barplot(x=gc.index, y=gc.genres, palette=sns.color_palette("BuGn_r", n_colors=len(genre_count) + 4), ax=ax)
ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, horizontalalignment='right')
plt.show()

Without ax

plt.figure(figsize=(12, 6))
chart = sns.barplot(x=gc.index, y=gc.genres, palette=sns.color_palette("BuGn_r", n_colors=len(genre_count)))
chart.set_xticklabels(chart.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, horizontalalignment='right')
plt.show()

Plot: sns.countplot

• Use sns.countplot to skip using .value_counts() if the plot order doesn't matter.
• To order the countplot, order=df.genres.value_counts().index must be used, so countplot doesn't really save you from needing .value_counts(), if a descending order is desired.

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 6))
sns.countplot(data=df, x='genres', ax=ax)
ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, horizontalalignment='right')
plt.show()