[FIXED] rotating xticks in seaborn scatterplot

Issue

i have an aggregate dataset that i am trying to visualise, it looks like that:

and i need to plot some statistics for 18 states. currently the plot looks in the following way:

and i manage to set xticks with the following code, however there is no rotate and i get an error. the code for the plot is:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (15, 6))
sns.scatterplot(ax = ax, x = 'state', y = 'price per acre, usd', data = data)
ax.set_xlabel("state", size = 12)
ax.set_ylabel('average price per acre of land, usd', size = 12)
ax.set_title('average prices on industrial land', size = 20)
ax.set_xticklabels(data['state'], rotation = 45)
plt.show()

and the error i get looks like this:

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/indexes/base.py in get_loc(self, key, method, tolerance)
   3361                 return self._engine.get_loc(casted_key)
   3362             except KeyError as err:
-> 3363                 raise KeyError(key) from err
   3364 
   3365         if is_scalar(key) and isna(key) and not self.hasnans:

KeyError: 'state'

so how i can rotate those labels (with names of states in the plot so that i do not receive an error and got a visually nice plot)? the column with the names of the state is called "state" as it is clearly from the plot code

Solution

If you want to change the tick parameters, e.g. the rotation, use set_tick_params instead of re-setting the labels along with the rotation:

ax.xaxis.set_tick_params(rotation = 45)

Answered By - Stef