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Spacing of subplots is too small, titles of subplots overlap with tick labels

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Describe the bug Whenever I make an arviz plot using az.plot_trace(data,compact=True) the title of subplots overlap with tick labels of the respective subplot above.

See plot below, the spacing between subplots seems wrong, don’t know why: hierarchical_numpyro_trace

Additional context arviz 0.11.4 macOS 12.1 Python 3.10.1 IPython 7.30.1 VSCode 1.63.2

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Created 2 years ago
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OriolAbrilcommented, Dec 27, 2021

constrained layout is still experimental so matplotlib doesn’t set it to true as a default (yet?). I’m not sure there is a way to fix this within ArviZ. We do provide those opinionated extra themes, but we rely on matplotlib styles so using those changes the look of any matplotlib/seaborn/… plot, so loading one of those at import on our side would probably be confusing. plots would change appearance with no apparent reason to many users importing arviz.

we have some ideas for new pages in the documentation related to plotting (https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/issues/1488) covering how to overlay plots for example. we could have a section on constrained_layout/tight_layout. Or maybe faq page with common questions on plotting, stats, inferencedata…?

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corneliusroemercommented, Dec 27, 2021

Thanks for the tips!

Is there a reason why I need to custom set these parameters? Are my defaults messed up for some reason or does every user have to do this?

If it’s just me, then we can close this issue, but if it affects others, would it be possible to fix this within arviz?

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