I would like to add a description box in matplotlib, similar to what is shown in the picture. I have hidden sensitive details in the description box since it cannot be made public
Is there a way to add such a description box next to the plots (ofcourse without hiding the details) ?
I have tried to search on the internet, but all I get is how to add description within the plot, and not like how I would like it to be
Can anyone help me with this ?
You could use matplotlib.pyplot.text.
If you specify transform=ax.transAxes, so that the coordinates are relative to the axes bounding box, and verticalalignment='top', you can get something very similar to the picture you posted.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x_val = np.random.uniform(low=-4, high=4, size=200)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.hist(x_val,bins=20)
textbox = '\n'.join([
'Evaluation flow name: ',
'Evaluation description: ',
'',
'Evaluation flow SVN Revision: ',
'Dataset path: ',
'Dataset name: ',
'',
'Filter: ',
'Grouping: ',
'Files selected with filter and grouping: ',
'Files with all needed signals: ',
'',
'...',
'...',
'...',
])
bbox = dict(boxstyle='square', facecolor='lavender', alpha=0.5)
fig.text(1.1,1,textbox,fontsize=10,transform=ax.transAxes, bbox=bbox,
verticalalignment='top')
which gives the following output: https://i.stack.imgur.com/57rnI.png
For the text I used a join() just to have something easier to read and modify (with respect to a single long string full of '\n', perhaps there are better ways to do that.
