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The document provides an overview of using Seaborn's distplot function for visualizing distributions of data, specifically focusing on car attributes from the 'mpg' dataset. It includes examples of customizing the appearance of the plots, such as adjusting histograms, kernel density estimates, and rug plots. Additionally, it demonstrates various options for fitting distributions and styling the visualizations.

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03_distplot

The document provides an overview of using Seaborn's distplot function for visualizing distributions of data, specifically focusing on car attributes from the 'mpg' dataset. It includes examples of customizing the appearance of the plots, such as adjusting histograms, kernel density estimates, and rug plots. Additionally, it demonstrates various options for fitting distributions and styling the visualizations.

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Seaborn: distplot

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


import seaborn as sns

cars = sns.load_dataset('mpg').dropna()

cars.shape

(392, 9)

cars.head()

mpg cylinders displacement horsepower weight acceleration \


0 18.0 8 307.0 130.0 3504 12.0
1 15.0 8 350.0 165.0 3693 11.5
2 18.0 8 318.0 150.0 3436 11.0
3 16.0 8 304.0 150.0 3433 12.0
4 17.0 8 302.0 140.0 3449 10.5

model_year origin name


0 70 usa chevrolet chevelle malibu
1 70 usa buick skylark 320
2 70 usa plymouth satellite
3 70 usa amc rebel sst
4 70 usa ford torino

sns.set_style('white')

Intro Visuals
hp = cars.horsepower.sample(100, random_state=100)

plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=14)
plt.rc('ytick', labelsize=14)

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(hp, rug=True, kde=False, hist=False, rug_kws={'lw': 2})

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlim(0, 280)
plt.xlabel('')
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout();
plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(hp, kde=False, hist_kws={'alpha': 1})

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlim(0, 280)
plt.xlabel('')
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout();
plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(hp, hist=False, kde_kws={'lw': 5})

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlim(0, 280)
plt.xlabel('')
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout();
plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(hp, rug=True, kde_kws={"lw": 5}, rug_kws={'lw': 2} )

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlim(0, 280)
plt.xlabel('')
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout();
Basics
sns.distplot(cars.weight);
sns.distplot(cars.weight, kde=False);

sns.distplot(cars.weight, hist=False, rug=True);


Options
Bins
sns.distplot(cars.weight, bins=5);
sns.distplot(cars.weight, bins=[1500, 2000, 2500, 3500, 5200]);

Fit
from scipy.stats import skewnorm

sns.distplot(cars.weight, fit=skewnorm, kde=False);


Kwargs
hist_kws
sns.distplot(cars.weight, kde=False, hist_kws={'alpha': 1});
sns.distplot(cars.weight, kde=False,
hist_kws={'alpha': 1, 'histtype': 'stepfilled'});

kde_kws
sns.distplot(cars.weight, kde_kws={'lw': 5});
sns.kdeplot(cars.weight, lw=5);

sns.distplot(cars.weight, kde_kws={'bw': 1000});


rug_kws
sns.distplot(cars.weight, rug=True, rug_kws={'height': 0.15});
sns.distplot(cars.weight, rug=True,
rug_kws={'height': 0.15, 'color': 'xkcd:navy'});

Styled Distplots
sns.set_style('white')

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(cars.weight,
bins=20,
kde_kws={"lw": 8, 'color':'xkcd:bluish green'},
hist_kws={'alpha': 0.3, 'color':'gray'}
)

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlabel('Weight (lbs)', fontsize=16, labelpad=15)
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout()

plt.savefig('03dist_styleWeight_greenKDE.svg');
sns.set_style('white')

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(cars.acceleration.sample(100, random_state=100),
rug=True,
kde=False,
hist_kws={'lw': 5,
'linestyle': (0, (5, 1)),
'alpha': 1,
'histtype':'step',
'color':'xkcd:dark magenta'},
rug_kws={'lw': 3,
'color':'xkcd:dark magenta'}
)
sns.distplot(cars.acceleration.sample(100, random_state=100),
kde=False,
hist_kws={'alpha': 0.1,
'histtype':'stepfilled',
'color':'xkcd:dark magenta'},
)

sns.despine(left=True)
plt.xlabel('')
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.tight_layout()

plt.savefig('03dist_styleAcc_pink.svg');

import random
random.seed(11)

data = [random.gauss(2, 0.75) for _ in range(50)]


data.extend([random.gauss(-2, 0.75) for _ in range(50)])

sns.set_style('whitegrid')

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(data,
rug=True,
hist=False,
color='green',
kde_kws={'lw':4, 'shade':True, 'bw':.5},
rug_kws={'lw':2}
)

sns.despine()
plt.xlabel('')
plt.tight_layout()
#plt.savefig('03dist_styleRand_greenKDErug.svg');

sns.set_style('darkgrid')

data = [random.gauss(2, 0.75) for _ in range(100)]


data.extend([random.gauss(-2, 0.75) for _ in range(50)])

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.distplot(data,
hist_kws={'histtype': 'stepfilled',
'alpha':0.7, 'color':'xkcd:carolina blue'},
kde_kws={'lw':8,'color':'xkcd:navy'}
)

sns.despine()
plt.xlabel('')
plt.tight_layout()

#plt.savefig('03dist_styleRand_carolina.svg');

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