On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> is there a way to make density plots using hexagonal bins in matplotlib?
> what i mean is something like the hexbin package for R, where you can make
> density plots where hexagons are plotted in size proportion to the number of
> points in that hexagonal bin... see
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/html/hexbin.html
>
> alternatively, the hexgons can be of the same size but shaded in proportion
> to their counts. i am more interested in the case where the hexagons are
> sized differently, but in any case, both hexagonal density plots come with
> an associated legend on the side that shows the bins:
>
>
> http://bm2.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/R_current/library/hexbin/man/gplot.hexbin.html
>
> is there a way to do this in matplotlib? thanks for your help.
>
Not to be rude, but is there any reason you didn't look for pyplot.hexbin
before sending the email? :)
Ryan
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Ryan May
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University of Oklahoma
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