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Option to hide outliers in a boxplot

See original GitHub issue

Is there a way to not show outliers in boxplot in order to not to mess up a scale? If not I think It would be nice to add. I tried fliersize=0 but that didn’t work. (The scale was still the same).

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Created 6 years ago
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cocoaaacommented, Apr 9, 2018

Adding to @mwaskom’s suggestion, I found showfliers=False to be helpful.

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ixjlyonscommented, May 20, 2019

@mapio Well, it doesn’t really make sense to try to document all of the arguments the underlying matplotlib function accepts. It would be a duplication of effort and it would inevitably become out of sync as matplotlib changes things (eventually leading to a huge mess when seaborn docs only apply to some versions of matplotlib, etc.). seaborn doesn’t do anything specific with showfliers (aside from passing it along to boxplot), so it’s not documented. The docs do say:

Other keyword arguments are passed through to plt.boxplot at draw time.

This pattern is used throughout seaborn (and wrapper libraries in general), and it’s assumed you can go to the matplotlib docs to find additional options and what they do.