seaborn_ex.py

import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

sns.set(style="white", context="talk")

# Set up the matplotlib figure
f, (ax1) = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(10, 6), sharex=True)

# Specify data
x = np.array(['read.csv','HDFS connector\n1 core','HDFS connector\n2 cores', 'HDFS connector\n4 cores'])
y1 = np.array([31.477,30.874,16.529,10.032])
plot = sns.barplot(x, y1, palette="BuGn_d", ax=ax1)
ax1.set_ylabel("Time (secs)")

# Finalize the plot
sns.despine(bottom=True)
plt.setp(f.axes, yticks=[])
plt.tight_layout(h_pad=3)

plot.get_figure().savefig('/tmp/test.png',bbox_inches='tight')