# Anyway to increase the heatmap "block" height?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyway-to-increase-the-heatmap-block-height/41355
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [June 14, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyway-to-increase-the-heatmap-block-height/41355 "2020-06-14T04:37:35Z")
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### Author:  [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyway-to-increase-the-heatmap-block-height/41355/1 "2020-06-14T04:37:35Z")
I am constructing a heatmap `heatmap(xvals, yvals, zvals, size=(500,2000)` but because the `yvals` are texts, they seem to overlap and jumble together. See
Now increase `size=(500, 10000)` helps only slightly and seems to “first take the jumbled plot” and then expand it to the size given. Is there another way to do this?
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### Author:  [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyway-to-increase-the-heatmap-block-height/41355/2 "2020-06-15T23:34:50Z")
Just bumping this up in case anyone has an idea…otherwise may have to shift to Vegalite, gnuplot or ggplot2.
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### Author:  [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyway-to-increase-the-heatmap-block-height/41355/3 "2020-06-16T00:05:09Z")
> [@affans](#):
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> (500, 10000)
```julia
y0=0:100:1000
y1 = y0.*6
heatmap(rand(100,3), aspect_ratio=0.21, size = (500, 3000), colorbar=false, margin=10mm)
savefig("test.png")
```
play with the `aspect_ratio` options maybe?
