Re: [Matplotlib-users] data format question

[Clifford L. <cli...@gm...>]

Got it - thanks.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Paul Hobson <pmh...@gm...> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Clifford Lyon <cli...@gm...>wrote:
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>> I wish to make a boxplot with data in this format:
>>
>> Value, Frequency
>> 0, 128329
>> 1, 20390
>> 2, 230
>> 3, 32
>> 4, 3
>>
>> etc.  Rather than expand this into a flat array, is there some way to
>> pass in weights for values?  Some of the frequencies I'm working with are
>> very large, and so the resulting arrays would be huge.  AFAIK, all the
>> summary statistics I need for the plot can be computed from data in this
>> form.
>>
>>
> Boxplot, as it currently stands, wants the raw data. Some recently added
> features allow you to manually specify the median and it's confidence
> intervals, but nothing else.
>
> I've been meaning to submit a PR for boxplot where it's split into the
> public method and private drawing function that just takes a dictionary of
> the values (R does this, IIRC). That wouldn't directly help you in this
> situation, but you'd be one step closer.
>  -paul
>