matplotlib.pyplot.hist2d

matplotlib.pyplot. hist2d ( x, y, bins=10, range=None, density=False, weights=None, cmin=None, cmax=None, *, data=None, **kwargs ) [source]

Make a 2D histogram plot.

Parameters

x, y array-like, shape (n, )

Input values

bins None or int or [int, int] or array-like or [array, array]

The bin specification:

• If int, the number of bins for the two dimensions (nx=ny=bins).
• If [int, int], the number of bins in each dimension (nx, ny = bins).
• If array-like, the bin edges for the two dimensions (x_edges=y_edges=bins).
• If [array, array], the bin edges in each dimension (x_edges, y_edges = bins).

The default value is 10.

range array-like shape(2, 2), optional

The leftmost and rightmost edges of the bins along each dimension (if not specified explicitly in the bins parameters): [[xmin, xmax], [ymin, ymax]]. All values outside of this range will be considered outliers and not tallied in the histogram.

density bool, default: False

Normalize histogram. See the documentation for the density parameter of hist for more details.

weights array-like, shape (n, ), optional

An array of values w_i weighing each sample (x_i, y_i).

cmin, cmax float, default: None

All bins that has count less than cmin or more than cmax will not be displayed (set to NaN before passing to imshow) and these count values in the return value count histogram will also be set to nan upon return.

Returns

h 2D array

The bi-dimensional histogram of samples x and y. Values in x are histogrammed along the first dimension and values in y are histogrammed along the second dimension.

xedges 1D array

The bin edges along the x axis.

yedges 1D array

The bin edges along the y axis.

image QuadMesh

Other Parameters

cmap Colormap or str, optional

A colors.Colormap instance. If not set, use rc settings.

norm Normalize, optional

A colors.Normalize instance is used to scale luminance data to [0, 1]. If not set, defaults to colors.Normalize().

vmin/vmax None or scalar, optional

Arguments passed to the Normalize instance.

alpha 0 <= scalar <= 1 or None, optional

The alpha blending value.

data indexable object, optional

If given, the following parameters also accept a string s, which is interpreted as data[s] (unless this raises an exception):

x, y, weights

**kwargs

Additional parameters are passed along to the pcolormesh method and QuadMesh constructor.

See also

hist

1D histogram plotting

hexbin

2D histogram with hexagonal bins

Notes

• Currently hist2d calculates its own axis limits, and any limits previously set are ignored.
• Rendering the histogram with a logarithmic color scale is accomplished by passing a colors.LogNorm instance to the norm keyword argument. Likewise, power-law normalization (similar in effect to gamma correction) can be accomplished with colors.PowerNorm.