How to add annotations in the diagonal squares of a pairplot

Question

I've created a graph based on the iris dataset, but my Professor wants it to look a particular way. Their example has the diagonals labeled by the attribute.

I don't see the option to edit the diagonal in that way in seaborn's pairplot documentation.

Is there some way to add that label?

Below is what I developed:

Here is what my Professor's example looks like.

And here's my code:

from sklearn import datasets
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

iris = datasets.load_iris()

sns.set_theme(style="ticks")


df = pd.DataFrame(iris.data)
df.columns = ['sepal_length', 'sepal_width', 'petal_length', 'petal_width']
df['class'] = iris.target

sns.set_palette("pastel")
g = sns.pairplot(df, hue='class',diag_kind = None ,palette = ['#FF6961','#77DD77','#1e81b0']) 

g._legend.remove()


plt.legend(title='Categorys', loc = 'center right', labels=['Virginica','Versicolour','Setosa'],bbox_to_anchor=(1.9, 2) )

plt.show(g)

Does this answer the question? [How to add annotations in the diagonal squares of a PairGrid](https://stackoverflow.com/q/63556050/7758804) — Trenton McKinney, Sep 23 '22 at 18:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '22 at 17:00

You could define a simple labeling function and map that across the diagonal axes:

def axes_label(x, **kws):
    ax = plt.gca()
    ax.text(
        .5, .5, x.name, size=14,
        ha="center", va="center", transform=ax.transAxes
    )

(
    sns.PairGrid(iris, height=2)
    .map_offdiag(sns.scatterplot, hue=iris["species"])
    .map_diag(axes_label)
    .add_legend()
    .set(xlabel="", ylabel="")
)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '22 at 06:42

you could manually make the diagonal panel invisible and annotate the labels like this - sorry for the poor label alignment, you could adjust that if needed:

from sklearn import datasets
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

iris = datasets.load_iris()

sns.set_theme(style="ticks")

df = pd.DataFrame(iris.data)
df.columns = ['sepal_length', 'sepal_width', 'petal_length', 'petal_width']
df['class'] = iris.target

sns.set_palette("pastel")


g = sns.pairplot(df, hue='class',diag_kind = None ,palette = ['#FF6961','#77DD77','#1e81b0'])

g._legend.remove()

# remove content from diagonal axis
for i in range(4):
    g.axes[i, i].set_visible(False)

# add the labels - adjust correct positions
g.fig.text(.15, .85, 'label 1', fontsize=24, fontweight='bold')
g.fig.text(.33, .62, 'label 2', fontsize=24, fontweight='bold')
g.fig.text(.62, .4, 'label 3', fontsize=24, fontweight='bold')
g.fig.text(.85, .15, 'label 4', fontsize=24, fontweight='bold')

plt.legend(title='Categorys', loc = 'center right', labels=['Virginica','Versicolour','Setosa'],bbox_to_anchor=(1.9, 2) )

plt.show()

How to add annotations in the diagonal squares of a pairplot

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