Setting Figure size of matplotlib plots

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Skill - Setting the Figure size of Matplotlib plots

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Matplotlib is a plotting library tn the scipy ecosystem of libraries.

I this post we will try to learn how to set the size of a figure in matplotlib

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Sometimes we may like to control the size of matplotlib figure instead of default figure size. This requirement may arise for saving figure as image etc

Setting figure size using the ‘figsize’ parameter

Here we are providing figsize input to subplots function as
figsize=(width_in_inches, height_in_inches)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = [1, 2, 3, 4]
y = [1, 4, 2, 3]

# create a new figure and get figure, axes handle in return
# here we are setting width = 3 inches, height = 2 inches
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(3,2))

# using color keyword itn plot function to control color
ax.plot(x,y)

# print figure
plt.show()

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