On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:30 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Tony S Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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.
Thanks! I'll give both imshow and pcolor a try. Most likely I'll use pcolor, since lighter bins would completely disappear without faceting (... or maybe that's a good thing). -Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
