[FIXED] Skip nan annotation in seaborn heatmap

Issue

How is it possible to drop the nans in the heatmap annotation while keeping the colorcoding?

import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

data =  np.random.random((15,15))
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
annot_df = df.applymap(lambda f: f'{f:.1f}')
annot_df=annot_df.to_numpy()
np.put(annot_df,np.random.choice(annot_df.size, 21, replace=False),np.nan)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,10))
sns.heatmap(
    df,
    cbar=False,
    annot=annot_df,
    fmt="",
    annot_kws={"size": 10, "va": "center_baseline"},
    cmap="magma",
    vmin=-1,
    vmax=1,
    square=True)
plt.show()

Heatmap

Masking only also removes the colorcoding.

Solution

The mask argument for sns.heatmap is for situations where you want to mask data by value and not apply heatmap coloring on the masked cells. If you want to just drop the annotation altogether but keep the coloring, you can use empty string in place of np.nan in your annotations.

import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

data = np.random.random((15, 15))
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
annot_df = df.applymap(lambda f: f"{f:.1f}")
annot_df = annot_df.to_numpy()
np.put(annot_df, np.random.choice(annot_df.size, 21, replace=False), "") # The only change here
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
sns.heatmap(
    df,
    cbar=False,
    annot=annot_df,
    fmt="",
    annot_kws={"size": 10, "va": "center_baseline"},
    cmap="magma",
    vmin=-1,
    vmax=1,
    square=True,
)
plt.show()

Answered By - Niko Fohr