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Harry Chittenden
Harry Chittenden

Reputation: 105

Histograms Of Data Along Each Axis?

Suppose I have two sets of scatter data, which I am plotting on x and y axes:

plt.scatter(x,y,s=2)

Data plotted on x and y axes

and each of these datasets has a histogram:

hist_x, bins_x, st_x = plt.hist(x)
hist_y, bins_y, st_y = plt.hist(y)

Histogram of data along x axis Histogram of data along y axis

What I'm trying to do is display these histograms along each axis of the scatter plot, i.e. to show the distributions that the data has along each axis, in a single image.

How would one go about this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 603

Answers (1)

JacobV
JacobV

Reputation: 26

It seems to me that you're looking to use mpl for visualizations. If that's the case, I would suggest looking into the subplots class. You should be able to introduce a 2-2 grid and then fill those plots with the graph and the two distributions with appropriate rotation.

If, however, you're willing to try another package, I would suggest using seaborn. Here's an article on Visualizing Distributions using Seaborn from pydata that describes a method that does exactly what you're trying to accomplish.

I hope these point you in the right direction!

Upvotes: 1

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