Plotting a reference line over facet plots

Question

I need to scatter plot data with its own line by type with a comparison to a reference line for each facet. I am wrestling with getting the line equation y=8x+10 to plot on each facet plot.

    import pandas as pd
    import seaborn as sns

    sns.lmplot(x="18O‰ VSMOW", y="D‰ VSMOW", hue="Type",
        col="Type", col_wrap=2, data=df)

My goal is to enable easy comparison of each Type to a known general relationship. Below, I drew in what I would like on the top two plots:

tdy · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-14T04:57:29.917

As of matplotlib 3.3, use axline() to easily plot reference lines.
Figure-level functions like lmplot return a FacetGrid, so store the grid to access the facets.

Either use FacetGrid.map_dataframe() to apply axline to each facet:

# store underlying facet grid
g = sns.lmplot(x='total_bill', y='tip', col='day', hue='day', col_wrap=2, data=df)

# apply axline to each facet (y = 0.18*x - 0.3)
g.map_dataframe(lambda data, **kws: plt.axline((0, -0.3), slope=0.18))

Or iterate the facets manually via g.axes.flat:

for ax in g.axes.flat:
    ax.axline((0, -0.3), slope=0.18) # y = 0.18*x - 0.3

Plotting a reference line over facet plots

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