📦 Seaborn Count Plot

Last Updated: 07 Nov 2025

A count plot shows how many times each category appears in a column.

Hinglish Tip 🗣: Kisi category ki frequency (kitni baar aaya) dekhni ho — count plot perfect hai.

Basic Syntax

sns.countplot(data=df, x='category_col')
plt.show()

📘 Example Dataset

df = sns.load_dataset('tips')
df.head()

📊 Basic Count Plot

sns.countplot(data=df, x='day')
plt.show()

Important Parameters

  • data, x, y - Usually you use x for categories. y is rarely used but possible.
  • hue Split categories.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', hue='sex')
plt.show()
  • order Customize the category order.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', order=['Thur','Fri','Sat','Sun'])
plt.show()
  • hue_order Order for hue categories.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', hue='sex', hue_order=['Female','Male'])
plt.show()
  • palette Choose custom color theme.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', palette='Spectral')
plt.show()
  • saturation Color intensity.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', saturation=0.5)
plt.show()
  • legend Show/hide legend.
sns.countplot(data=df, x='day', hue='sex', legend=False)
plt.show()
  • orient Vertical or horizontal orientation.
sns.countplot(data=df, y='day')
plt.show()

⭐ Full Example

sns.countplot(
    data=df,
    x='day',
    hue='sex',
    palette='coolwarm',
    order=['Thur','Fri','Sat','Sun'],
    hue_order=['Female','Male'],
    saturation=0.7
)
plt.show()

Quick Practice

  1. Load penguins dataset.
  2. Make a countplot for species.
  3. Add hue for sex.
  4. Change palette.
  5. Change order manually.

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