Getting the same subplot size using matplotlib imshow and scatter

Question

I am trying to plot an image (using matplotlib.imshow) and a scatter plot within the same figure. When trying this, the image appears smaller than the scatter p

Answer 1

I had the same problem and asked a very similar question in SO. The solution proposed by @ImportanceOfBeingErnest worked like a charm for me, but for completeness, I'd like to mention a pretty simple workaround I was suggested to apply (credit to @Yilun Zhang) before my question was marked as an exact duplicate of this one:

The problem is that the plot region height is too large and this is leaving empty place in the image.

If you change your code to:

fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 6))

then you get the desired outcome: