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Histograms Cheatsheet

The document provides information on different options for building and plotting histograms in Python, including functions in the collections, numpy, pandas, and seaborn modules. It summarizes the purpose and usage of the Counter, numpy.histogram, pandas Series and DataFrame hist plotting methods, and seaborn's distplot function. Code examples are given to demonstrate basic usage of each.

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Histograms Cheatsheet

The document provides information on different options for building and plotting histograms in Python, including functions in the collections, numpy, pandas, and seaborn modules. It summarizes the purpose and usage of the Counter, numpy.histogram, pandas Series and DataFrame hist plotting methods, and seaborn's distplot function. Code examples are given to demonstrate basic usage of each.

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Real Python Cheat Sheet (realpython.

com)

Building Histograms in Python: Examples

Python offers a handful of different options for building and plotting histograms, all covered in our in-depth tutorial at realpython.com/python-
histograms/. Note: This cheat sheet uses **kwargs in place of some named keyword arguments. Click on each function or method to link to the full
documentation.

collections.Counter(*args, **kwds) matplotlib.pyplot.hist(x, bins=None, range=None, den-


sity=None, **kwargs)

Dict subclass for counting items, housed in Python’s Standard Library.


Compute and plot a histogram. Returns a tuple (n, bins, patches).

>>> a = (0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 23) >>> n, bins, patches = plt.hist(x=d, bins='auto', color='#0504aa',


>>> counts = Counter(a) ... alpha=0.7, rwidth=0.85)

numpy.histogram(a, bins=10, range=None, normed=False, pandas.Series.hist.plot(bins=10, ax=None, grid=True,


weights=None, density=None) **kwargs)

Draw histogram of the input series. See also: pd.DataFrame.hist.plot().


Compute the histogram of a set of data. Returns (hist, bin_edges)

>>> n = np.asarray(np.random.randint(0, 10, size=1000) * 10,


>>> d = np.random.laplace(loc=15, scale=3, size=500) ... dtype=np.int8)
>>> hist, bin_edges = np.histogram(d) >>> ax = s.plot.hist(bins=12, alpha=0.5, figsize=(8, 4))
pandas.Series.value_counts(normalize=False, sort=True, as- seaborn.distplot(a, bins=None, hist=True, kde=True, fit=None,
cending=False, bins=None, dropna=True) **kwargs)

Frequency counts of each distinct value. Excludes NaN values by de-


Combines histogram with KDE or fitted scipy.stats distribution.
fault.

>>> s = pd.Series([1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 5]) >>> x = np.random.randn(100)


>>> s.value_counts() >>> ax = sns.distplot(x, bins='FD')

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