Move seaborn plot legend to a different position

Question

I'm using factorplot(kind="bar") with seaborn.

The plot is fine except the legend is misplaced: too much to the right, text goes out of the plot's shaded area.

How do I make seaborn place the legend somewhere else, such as in top-left instead of middle-right?

Answer 1

Building on @user308827's answer: you can use legend=False in factorplot and specify the legend through matplotlib:

import seaborn as sns import matplotlib.pyplot as plt sns.set(style="whitegrid")  titanic = sns.load_dataset("titanic")  g = sns.factorplot("class", "survived", "sex",                    data=titanic, kind="bar",                    size=6, palette="muted",                    legend=False) g.despine(left=True) plt.legend(loc='upper left') g.set_ylabels("survival probability") 

• plt acts on the current axes. To get axes from a FacetGrid use fig.
  • g.fig.get_axes()[0].legend(loc='lower left')