Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-25 Thread Maarten Sneep
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 13:39 -0500, Ryan May wrote: > Thanks for that. This actually led me here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram which gives a bunch of > different ways to estimate the number of bins/binsize. It might be > worth looking at one of these in general. However, ironically enoug

Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Ryan May
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Maarten Sneep wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:12 -0500, Ryan May wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck >> >> > If there are only 7 possible values of the data, which are >> evenly-spaced, it should probably not go in and create more t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Maarten Sneep
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:12 -0500, Ryan May wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck > > > If there are only 7 possible values of the data, which are > evenly-spaced, it should probably not go in and create more than 6 > bins as the default behavior. I know I can specify bin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Ryan May
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote: > On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Ryan May wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck >> wrote: >>> I notice that when the number of bins in a histogram is sparse, the spacing >>> between the bins can be irregu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Ryan May wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck > wrote: >> I notice that when the number of bins in a histogram is sparse, the spacing >> between the bins can be irregular. For example: >> >> http://cl.ly/7e0ad7039873d5446365 >> http://c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Ryan May
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote: > I notice that when the number of bins in a histogram is sparse, the spacing > between the bins can be irregular. For example: > > http://cl.ly/7e0ad7039873d5446365 > http://cl.ly/c7cb20b567722928ac3c > > Is there a way of normalizin

[Matplotlib-users] inconsistent spacing in histograms

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
I notice that when the number of bins in a histogram is sparse, the spacing between the bins can be irregular. For example: http://cl.ly/7e0ad7039873d5446365 http://cl.ly/c7cb20b567722928ac3c Is there a way of normalizing this, and better, can the default behavior result in something more consi