Re: [Matplotlib-users] Combination of a box plot and a histogram

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Tony S Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

> I'd like to make something in between a box plot [1] and a histogram. Each
> histogram would be represented by a single, tall, rectangular patch (like
> the box in a box plot), and the patch would be subdivided by the bin edges
> of the histogram. The face color of each sub-patch would replace the bar
> height in the histogram.
>
> If any of that actually made sense:
>
> * Does this type of plot have a name?
>
> * Is there an easy way to do this in Matplotlib?
>
> * If there isn't an easy way, what would be a good starting point? Initial
> ideas: 1) Use pcolor or imshow and embed this axes in a larger axes, 2)
> represent the sub-patches as a PolyCollection.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Tony
>
> [1] e.g.
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/boxplot_demo.html
>

Tony,

I am not quite sure I understand.  Are you  looking for error bars on the
histogram, maybe?

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/screenshots.html#bar-charts

Or maybe something more like this:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/bar_stacked.html

Or maybe something else in the gallery is more like what you want:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

Ben Root