Pandas DataFrame: hist() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:51 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

DataFrame.hist() function

The hist() function is used to make a histogram of the DataFrame’s

A histogram is a representation of the distribution of data. This function calls matplotlib.pyplot.hist(), on each series in the DataFrame, resulting in one histogram per column.

Syntax:

DataFrame.hist(data, column=None, by=None, grid=True, xlabelsize=None, xrot=None, ylabelsize=None, yrot=None, ax=None, sharex=False, sharey=False, figsize=None, layout=None, bins=10, **kwds)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Type/Default Value	Required / Optional
data	The pandas object holding the data.	DataFrame	Required
column	If passed, will be used to limit data to a subset of columns.	string or sequence	Required
by	If passed, then used to form histograms for separate groups.	object	Optional
grid	Whether to show axis grid lines.	bool Default Value: True	Required
xlabelsize	If specified changes the x-axis label size.	int Default Value: None	Required
xrot	Rotation of x axis labels. For example, a value of 90 displays the x labels rotated 90 degrees clockwise.	float Default Value: None	Optional
ylabelsize	If specified changes the y-axis label size.	int Default Value: None’	Required
yrot	Rotation of y axis labels. For example, a value of 90 displays the y labels rotated 90 degrees clockwise.	float Default Value: None	Required
ax	The axes to plot the histogram on.	Matplotlib axes object Default Value: ‘axes’	Required
sharex	In case subplots=True, share x axis and set some x axis labels to invisible; defaults to True if ax is None otherwise False if an ax is passed in. Note that passing in both an ax and sharex=True will alter all x axis labels for all subplots in a figure.	bool Default Value: True if ax is None else False	Required
sharey	In case subplots=True, share y axis and set some y axis labels to invisible.	bool Default Value: False	Required
figsize	The size in inches of the figure to create. Uses the value in matplotlib.rcParams by default.	tuple	Required
layout	Tuple of (rows, columns) for the layout of the histograms.	tuple	optional
bins	Number of histogram bins to be used. If an integer is given, bins + 1 bin edges are calculated and returned. If bins is a sequence, gives bin edges, including left edge of first bin and right edge of last bin. In this case, bins is returned unmodified.	integer or sequence Default Value: 10	Required
**kwds	All other plotting keyword arguments to be passed to matplotlib.pyplot.hist().		Required

Returns: matplotlib.AxesSubplot or numpy.ndarray of them

Example:

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