""" ===================== Hexagonal binned plot ===================== `~.Axes.hexbin` is a 2D histogram plot, in which the bins are hexagons and the color represents the number of data points within each bin. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) n = 100_000 x = np.random.standard_normal(n) y = 2.0 + 3.0 * x + 4.0 * np.random.standard_normal(n) xlim = x.min(), x.max() ylim = y.min(), y.max() fig, (ax0, ax1) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, sharey=True, figsize=(9, 4)) hb = ax0.hexbin(x, y, gridsize=50, cmap='inferno') ax0.set(xlim=xlim, ylim=ylim) ax0.set_title("Hexagon binning") cb = fig.colorbar(hb, ax=ax0, label='counts') hb = ax1.hexbin(x, y, gridsize=50, bins='log', cmap='inferno') ax1.set(xlim=xlim, ylim=ylim) ax1.set_title("With a log color scale") cb = fig.colorbar(hb, ax=ax1, label='counts') plt.show() # %% # # .. tags:: plot-type: histogram, plot-type: hexbin, domain: statistics # # .. admonition:: References # # The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown # in this example: # # - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.hexbin` / `matplotlib.pyplot.hexbin`