Remove vertical lines in matplotlib seaborn pointplots

Question

I have a problem with my Pointplot styling in seaborn and tried eveything to fix it but nothing seems to work. You can see my original dataframe below

    year  künstliche intelligenz   ki  artificial intelligence  ai
0   2000                      28   16                        4   0
1   2001                       0    0                        0   0
2   2002                       0    0                        0   0
3   2003                       4    0                        0   0
4   2004                       0    0                        0   0
5   2005                       0    0                        0   0
6   2006                       8    0                        0   0
7   2007                      12    0                        0   0
8   2008                       0    0                        0   0
9   2009                       0    0                        0   0
10  2010                       4    0                        0   0
11  2011                       4    0                        0   0
12  2012                       4    0                        0   0
13  2013                       4    0                        0   0
14  2014                      12    0                        0   0
15  2015                      48   24                        8  48
16  2016                      88   92                        8   4
17  2017                      96   48                        0   0
18  2018                     124  124                        4   0
19  2019                      84  292                        0   0
20  2020                      28    8                        0   0

on this DF I run these commands and get the resulting graph below

data = data.melt('year', var_name='cols', value_name='vals')

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6.3792, 6.3792))
sns.pointplot(x="year", y="vals", hue='cols', data=data, colors=sns.color_palette('colorblind'), scale=0.4,
                 ci=None)
ax.set(yscale='log')
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(mpl.ticker.ScalarFormatter())
ax.set_yticks([1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512])
ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=30)
plt.show()

my problem are the vertical lines to the X-Axis at the beginning and end of a point series.
Is there a way to remove these vertical lines?

Answer 1

Those vertical lines represent confidence levels , as stated in docs for sns.pointplot . If you don't want to show them in the chart, take a look at sns.lineplot .