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Hexagonal binned plot#

hexbin is a 2D histogram plot, in which the bins are hexagons andthe color represents the number of data points within each bin.

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnp# Fixing random state for reproducibilitynp.random.seed(19680801)n=100_000x=np.random.standard_normal(n)y=2.0+3.0*x+4.0*np.random.standard_normal(n)xlim=x.min(),x.max()ylim=y.min(),y.max()fig,(ax0,ax1)=plt.subplots(ncols=2,sharey=True,figsize=(9,4))hb=ax0.hexbin(x,y,gridsize=50,cmap='inferno')ax0.set(xlim=xlim,ylim=ylim)ax0.set_title("Hexagon binning")cb=fig.colorbar(hb,ax=ax0,label='counts')hb=ax1.hexbin(x,y,gridsize=50,bins='log',cmap='inferno')ax1.set(xlim=xlim,ylim=ylim)ax1.set_title("With a log color scale")cb=fig.colorbar(hb,ax=ax1,label='counts')plt.show()
Hexagon binning, With a log color scale

Tags:plot-type: histogramplot-type: hexbindomain: statistics

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