matplotlib.ipynb

Kernel: Python 2

matplotlib

Credits: Content forked from Parallel Machine Learning with scikit-learn and IPython by Olivier Grisel

• Setting Global Parameters

• Basic Plots

• Histograms

• Two Histograms on the Same Plot

• Scatter Plots

%matplotlib inline
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import pylab as plt
import seaborn

Setting Global Parameters

# Set the global default size of matplotlib figures
plt.rc('figure', figsize=(10, 5))

# Set seaborn aesthetic parameters to defaults
seaborn.set()

Basic Plots

x = np.linspace(0, 2, 10)

plt.plot(x, x, 'o-', label='linear')
plt.plot(x, x ** 2, 'x-', label='quadratic')

plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.title('Linear vs Quadratic progression')
plt.xlabel('Input')
plt.ylabel('Output');
plt.show()

Histograms

# Gaussian, mean 1, stddev .5, 1000 elements
samples = np.random.normal(loc=1.0, scale=0.5, size=1000)
print(samples.shape)
print(samples.dtype)
print(samples[:30])
plt.hist(samples, bins=50);
plt.show()

(1000,)
float64
[ 0.6806888   0.72202042  1.40490113  1.13979846  0.5729488   1.32584077
  0.61635621  0.60340336  1.29453467  0.69841457  0.6975998   0.72315991
  0.66912189  1.03420801  0.62283168  0.38582511  0.89488414  1.4802518
  1.43819256  0.98605861  0.60402232  1.03820507  0.35598796  1.32901087
  1.03194436  1.3374366   1.82526334  1.26614489  1.20061661  0.86344001]

Two Histograms on the Same Plot

samples_1 = np.random.normal(loc=1, scale=.5, size=10000)
samples_2 = np.random.standard_t(df=10, size=10000)
bins = np.linspace(-3, 3, 50)

# Set an alpha and use the same bins since we are plotting two hists
plt.hist(samples_1, bins=bins, alpha=0.5, label='samples 1')
plt.hist(samples_2, bins=bins, alpha=0.5, label='samples 2')
plt.legend(loc='upper left');
plt.show()

Scatter Plots

plt.scatter(samples_1, samples_2, alpha=0.1);
plt.show()