Pandas multiple boxplots - how to reduce spacing between plots?

Question

I have a plot with two boxplots:

There is an awful lot of spacing between lan_data and wan_data. I would like to reduce that spacing.

My dataframe is simply:

df = pd.DataFrame({'lan_data':random.sample(range(1, 100), 100), 'wan_data':random.sample(range(1, 100), 100)})

I have looked and all answers I come across pertain to either reducing the axis width, which just squashes the plot, or changing the position of the plots - none of those solutions appear to be appropriate.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like:

df.plot.box(box_padding = [top, bottom, left, right])

or

df.plot.box(subplot_spacing = 1.5)

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try play with widths :

df.plot.box(widths=0.8)