- DataFrame.plot(x=None, y=None, kind=‘line‘, ax=None, subplots=False, sharex=None, sharey=False, layout=None, figsize=None, use_index=True, title=None, grid=None, legend=True, style=None, logx=False, logy=False, loglog=False, xticks=None, yticks=None, xlim=None, ylim=None, rot=None, fontsize=None, colormap=None, table=False, yerr=None, xerr=None, secondary_y=False, sort_columns=False, **kwds)¶
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Make plots of DataFrame using matplotlib / pylab.
New in version 0.17.0: Each plot kind has a corresponding method on the DataFrame.plot accessor: df.plot(kind=‘line‘) is equivalent to df.plot.line().
Parameters: data : DataFrame
x : label or position, default None
y : label or position, default None
Allows plotting of one column versus another
kind : str
- ‘line’ : line plot (default)
- ‘bar’ : vertical bar plot
- ‘barh’ : horizontal bar plot
- ‘hist’ : histogram
- ‘box’ : boxplot
- ‘kde’ : Kernel Density Estimation plot
- ‘density’ : same as ‘kde’
- ‘area’ : area plot
- ‘pie’ : pie plot
- ‘scatter’ : scatter plot
- ‘hexbin’ : hexbin plot
ax : matplotlib axes object, default None
subplots : boolean, default False
Make separate subplots for each column
sharex : boolean, default True if ax is None else False
In case subplots=True, share x axis and set some x axis labels to invisible; defaults to True if ax is None otherwise False if an ax is passed in; Be aware, that passing in both an ax and sharex=True will alter all x axis labels for all axis in a figure!
sharey : boolean, default False
In case subplots=True, share y axis and set some y axis labels to invisible
layout : tuple (optional)
(rows, columns) for the layout of subplots
figsize : a tuple (width, height) in inches
use_index : boolean, default True
Use index as ticks for x axis
title : string
Title to use for the plot
grid : boolean, default None (matlab style default)
Axis grid lines
legend : False/True/’reverse’
Place legend on axis subplots
style : list or dict
matplotlib line style per column
logx : boolean, default False
Use log scaling on x axis
logy : boolean, default False
Use log scaling on y axis
loglog : boolean, default False
Use log scaling on both x and y axes
xticks : sequence
Values to use for the xticks
yticks : sequence
Values to use for the yticks
xlim : 2-tuple/list
ylim : 2-tuple/list
rot : int, default None
Rotation for ticks (xticks for vertical, yticks for horizontal plots)
fontsize : int, default None
Font size for xticks and yticks
colormap : str or matplotlib colormap object, default None
Colormap to select colors from. If string, load colormap with that name from matplotlib.
colorbar : boolean, optional
If True, plot colorbar (only relevant for ‘scatter’ and ‘hexbin’ plots)
position : float
Specify relative alignments for bar plot layout. From 0 (left/bottom-end) to 1 (right/top-end). Default is 0.5 (center)
layout : tuple (optional)
(rows, columns) for the layout of the plot
table : boolean, Series or DataFrame, default False
If True, draw a table using the data in the DataFrame and the data will be transposed to meet matplotlib’s default layout. If a Series or DataFrame is passed, use passed data to draw a table.
yerr : DataFrame, Series, array-like, dict and str
See Plotting with Error Bars for detail.
xerr : same types as yerr.
stacked : boolean, default False in line and
bar plots, and True in area plot. If True, create stacked plot.
sort_columns : boolean, default False
Sort column names to determine plot ordering
secondary_y : boolean or sequence, default False
Whether to plot on the secondary y-axis If a list/tuple, which columns to plot on secondary y-axis
mark_right : boolean, default True
When using a secondary_y axis, automatically mark the column labels with “(right)” in the legend
kwds : keywords
Options to pass to matplotlib plotting method
Returns: axes : matplotlib.AxesSubplot or np.array of them
Notes
- See matplotlib documentation online for more on this subject
- If kind = ‘bar’ or ‘barh’, you can specify relative alignments for bar plot layout by position keyword. From 0 (left/bottom-end) to 1 (right/top-end). Default is 0.5 (center)
- If kind = ‘scatter’ and the argument c is the name of a dataframe column, the values of that column are used to color each point.
- If kind = ‘hexbin’, you can control the size of the bins with the gridsize argument. By default, a histogram of the counts around each (x, y) point is computed. You can specify alternative aggregations by passing values to the C and reduce_C_function arguments. C specifies the value at each (x, y) point and reduce_C_function is a function of one argument that reduces all the values in a bin to a single number (e.g. mean, max, sum, std).
