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

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

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.
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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.

If you don't need faceting (dark edges around the bins), imshow with
the extent set would be the easiest way.  If you want faceting, pcolor
should work as well.