How to make inline plots in Jupyter Notebook larger?

Question

I have made my plots inline on my Ipython Notebook with \"%matplotlib inline.\"

Now, the plot appears. However, it is very small. Is there a way to ma

Answer 1

To adjust the size of one figure:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig=plt.figure(figsize=(15, 15))

To change the default settings, and therefore all your plots:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [15, 15]

Answer 2

using something like:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
plt.subplots(figsize=(18,8 ))
plt.subplot(1,3,1)
plt.subplot(1,3,2)
plt.subplot(1,3,3)

The output of the command

Answer 3

A quick fix to "plot overlap" is to use plt.tight_layout():

Example (in my case)

for i,var in enumerate(categorical_variables):
    plt.title(var)
    plt.xticks(rotation=45)
    df[var].hist()
    plt.subplot(len(categorical_variables)/2, 2, i+1)

plt.tight_layout()

Answer 4

If you only want the image of your figure to appear larger without changing the general appearance of your figure increase the figure resolution. Changing the figure size as suggested in most other answers will change the appearance since font sizes do not scale accordingly.

import matplotlib.pylab as plt
plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 200

Answer 5

Yes, play with figuresize and dpi like so (before you call your subplot):

fig=plt.figure(figsize=(12,8), dpi= 100, facecolor='w', edgecolor='k')

As @tacaswell and @Hagne pointed out, you can also change the defaults if it's not a one-off:

plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [12, 8]
plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 100 # 200 e.g. is really fine, but slower

Answer 6

The default figure size (in inches) is controlled by

matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [width, height]

For example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [10, 5]

creates a figure with 10 (width) x 5 (height) inches