Pandas DataFrame: plot.hist() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:51 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

DataFrame.plot.hist() function

The plot.hist() function is used to draw one histogram of the DataFrame’s columns.

A histogram is a representation of the distribution of data. This function groups the values of all given Series in the DataFrame into bins and draws all bins in one matplotlib.axes.Axes. This is useful when the DataFrame’s Series are in a similar scale.

Syntax:

DataFrame.plot.hist(self, by=None, bins=10, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Type/Default Value	Required / Optional
by	Column in the DataFrame to group by.	str or sequence	Optional
bins	Number of histogram bins to be used.	int Default Value: 10	Required
**kwds	Additional keyword arguments are documented in DataFrame.plot().		Required

Returns: class:matplotlib.AxesSubplot
Return a histogram plot.

Example:

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