""" ========== Histograms ========== Demonstrates how to plot histograms with matplotlib. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from matplotlib import colors from matplotlib.ticker import PercentFormatter # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) ############################################################################### # Generate data and plot a simple histogram # ----------------------------------------- # # To generate a 1D histogram we only need a single vector of numbers. For a 2D # histogram we'll need a second vector. We'll generate both below, and show # the histogram for each vector. N_points = 100000 n_bins = 20 # Generate a normal distribution, center at x=0 and y=5 x = np.random.randn(N_points) y = .4 * x + np.random.randn(100000) + 5 fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, sharey=True, tight_layout=True) # We can set the number of bins with the `bins` kwarg axs[0].hist(x, bins=n_bins) axs[1].hist(y, bins=n_bins) ############################################################################### # Updating histogram colors # ------------------------- # # The histogram method returns (among other things) a ``patches`` object. This # gives us access to the properties of the objects drawn. Using this, we can # edit the histogram to our liking. Let's change the color of each bar # based on its y value. fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, tight_layout=True) # N is the count in each bin, bins is the lower-limit of the bin N, bins, patches = axs[0].hist(x, bins=n_bins) # We'll color code by height, but you could use any scalar fracs = N / N.max() # we need to normalize the data to 0..1 for the full range of the colormap norm = colors.Normalize(fracs.min(), fracs.max()) # Now, we'll loop through our objects and set the color of each accordingly for thisfrac, thispatch in zip(fracs, patches): color = plt.cm.viridis(norm(thisfrac)) thispatch.set_facecolor(color) # We can also normalize our inputs by the total number of counts axs[1].hist(x, bins=n_bins, density=True) # Now we format the y-axis to display percentage axs[1].yaxis.set_major_formatter(PercentFormatter(xmax=1)) ############################################################################### # Plot a 2D histogram # ------------------- # # To plot a 2D histogram, one only needs two vectors of the same length, # corresponding to each axis of the histogram. fig, ax = plt.subplots(tight_layout=True) hist = ax.hist2d(x, y) ############################################################################### # Customizing your histogram # -------------------------- # # Customizing a 2D histogram is similar to the 1D case, you can control # visual components such as the bin size or color normalization. fig, axs = plt.subplots(3, 1, figsize=(5, 15), sharex=True, sharey=True, tight_layout=True) # We can increase the number of bins on each axis axs[0].hist2d(x, y, bins=40) # As well as define normalization of the colors axs[1].hist2d(x, y, bins=40, norm=colors.LogNorm()) # We can also define custom numbers of bins for each axis axs[2].hist2d(x, y, bins=(80, 10), norm=colors.LogNorm()) plt.show()