Matpltlib/Seaborn remove empty axis and also move shared-x tick labels-CodePudding

I'm plotting a selection of graphs using matplotlib and seaborn. When I remove the empty axes, the tick labels do not move to the graphs above them - is there a way to do this?

fig, ax = plt.subplots(9,4,figsize=(20, 30), sharey=True, sharex=True)
for r in range(0,9):
   for c in range(0,4):
    
       if (r==8) and (c>=2):
           pass
       else:
           data_red = preds[preds['region']==regions[(r*4) c]]
           sns.scatterplot(data=data_red, x='y_test', y='preds', ax=ax[r,c], alpha=0.6, legend=False)
           ax[r,c].plot(sl,sl, 'r-')
           ax[r,c].set_xlabel('')
           ax[r,c].set_ylabel('')
           ax[r,c].tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=20)
           ax[r,c].annotate(regions[(r*4) c], (550,200), fontsize=15)
           ax[r,c].annotate(f'RMSE: {rmse_regs[(r*4) c]}', (550,150), fontsize=15)
           ax[r,c].annotate(f'Bias: {bias_regs[(r*4) c]}', (550,100), fontsize=15)      
        
        
        
fig.delaxes(ax[8,2])
fig.delaxes(ax[8,3])
fig.text(0.5, -0.02, 'x', fontsize=25, ha='center')
fig.text(-0.02, 0.5, 'y', fontsize=25, va='center', rotation='vertical')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

CodePudding user response：

Since there is no data presented, I created a graph using the