matplotlib.axes.Axes.hexbin

Axes.hexbin(x, y, C=None, gridsize=100, bins=None, xscale='linear', yscale='linear', extent=None, cmap=None, norm=None, vmin=None, vmax=None, alpha=None, linewidths=None, edgecolors='face', reduce_C_function=<function mean>, mincnt=None, marginals=False, *, data=None, **kwargs)

Make a hexagonal binning plot.

Make a hexagonal binning plot of x versus y, where x, y are 1-D sequences of the same length, N. If C is None (the default), this is a histogram of the number of occurrences of the observations at (x[i],y[i]).

If C is specified, it specifies values at the coordinate (x[i], y[i]). These values are accumulated for each hexagonal bin and then reduced according to reduce_C_function, which defaults to numpy.mean. (If C is specified, it must also be a 1-D sequence of the same length as x and y.)

Parameters:

x, y : array or masked array

C : array or masked array, optional, default is None

gridsize : int or (int, int), optional, default is 100

The number of hexagons in the x-direction, default is 100. The corresponding number of hexagons in the y-direction is chosen such that the hexagons are approximately regular. Alternatively, gridsize can be a tuple with two elements specifying the number of hexagons in the x-direction and the y-direction.

bins : 'log' or int or sequence, optional, default is None

If None, no binning is applied; the color of each hexagon directly corresponds to its count value.

If 'log', use a logarithmic scale for the color map. Internally, \(log_{10}(i+1)\) is used to determine the hexagon color.

If an integer, divide the counts in the specified number of bins, and color the hexagons accordingly.

If a sequence of values, the values of the lower bound of the bins to be used.

xscale : {'linear', 'log'}, optional, default is 'linear'

Use a linear or log10 scale on the horizontal axis.

yscale : {'linear', 'log'}, optional, default is 'linear'

Use a linear or log10 scale on the vertical axis.

mincnt : int > 0, optional, default is None

If not None, only display cells with more than mincnt number of points in the cell

marginals : bool, optional, default is False

if marginals is True, plot the marginal density as colormapped rectagles along the bottom of the x-axis and left of the y-axis

extent : scalar, optional, default is None

The limits of the bins. The default assigns the limits based on gridsize, x, y, xscale and yscale.

If xscale or yscale is set to 'log', the limits are expected to be the exponent for a power of 10. E.g. for x-limits of 1 and 50 in 'linear' scale and y-limits of 10 and 1000 in 'log' scale, enter (1, 50, 1, 3).

Order of scalars is (left, right, bottom, top).

Returns:

polycollection

A PolyCollection instance; use PolyCollection.get_array on this to get the counts in each hexagon.

If marginals is True, horizontal bar and vertical bar (both PolyCollections) will be attached to the return collection as attributes hbar and vbar.

Other Parameters:

cmap : object, optional, default is None

a matplotlib.colors.Colormap instance. If None, defaults to rc image.cmap.

norm : object, optional, default is None

matplotlib.colors.Normalize instance is used to scale luminance data to 0,1.

vmin, vmax : scalar, optional, default is None

vmin and vmax are used in conjunction with norm to normalize luminance data. If None, the min and max of the color array C are used. Note if you pass a norm instance your settings for vmin and vmax will be ignored.

alpha : scalar between 0 and 1, optional, default is None

the alpha value for the patches

linewidths : scalar, optional, default is None

If None, defaults to 1.0.

edgecolors : {'face', 'none', None} or color, optional

If 'face' (the default), draws the edges in the same color as the fill color.

If 'none', no edge is drawn; this can sometimes lead to unsightly unpainted pixels between the hexagons.

If None, draws outlines in the default color.

If a matplotlib color arg, draws outlines in the specified color.

Notes

The standard descriptions of all the Collection parameters:

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float or None
animated	bool
antialiased	bool or sequence of bools
array	ndarray
capstyle	{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clim	a length 2 sequence of floats; may be overridden in methods that have vmin and vmax kwargs.
clip_box	Bbox
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
cmap	colormap or registered colormap name
color	matplotlib color arg or sequence of rgba tuples
contains	callable
edgecolor	color or sequence of colors
facecolor	color or sequence of colors
figure	Figure
gid	str
hatch	{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout	bool
joinstyle	{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label	object
linestyle	{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth	float or sequence of floats
norm	Normalize
offset_position	{'screen', 'data'}
offsets	float or sequence of floats
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	None or bool or float or callable
pickradius	unknown
rasterized	bool or None
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
transform	Transform
url	str
urls	List[str] or None
visible	bool
zorder	float

Note

In addition to the above described arguments, this function can take a data keyword argument. If such a data argument is given, the following arguments are replaced by data[<arg>]:

• All arguments with the following names: 'x', 'y'.

Objects passed as data must support item access (data[<arg>]) and membership test (<arg> in data).