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

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

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Tony S Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Oct 1, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Tony S Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> If any of that actually made sense:
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>> * Does this type of plot have a name?
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>> * Is there an easy way to do this in Matplotlib?
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>> * 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.
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>> Thoughts?
>> -Tony
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>> [1] e.g.
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/boxplot_demo.html
>>
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> Tony,
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> I am not quite sure I understand.
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> [snip]
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> Or maybe something else in the gallery is more like what you want:
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> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html
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> Ben Root
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> I've checked the gallery, but I don't see anything that appears similar. In
> any case, I ended up hacking together something that works. I've attached an
> image of what I had in mind (created with the code at the very bottom of
> this reply).
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> I ended up using mpl Rectangle objects and stringing them together using a
> PatchCollection. Maybe there's a more efficient way to do this, but this
> approach worked well-enough.
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> Best,
> -Tony
>

Actually, that looks kinda cool.  If anyone is aware of the name for this
kind of plot, maybe we could add a new plotting function?

Ben Root