Neil M wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to plot two histograms on the same axis without having > the bars on top of each other. > > I'm trying to determine how similar a distribution of activity is > between a large data set and a small subset. > > I have 2 million records with a last activity date. I can plot both > the sample and the full population on a normalized histogram, and in > different colours but the later plot covers smaller values of the > earlier one. > > Thanks > Neil
Neil, I can think of two alternatives. If one of the two distributions has all values higher than the other, so you want it to be behind, then you can use the zorder property of the patches. From your description it sounds like this is the case. If not, however, you can set the alpha property so that both sets of bars are semi-transparent. Both of these properties can be passed in as kwargs to the hist() function: hist(randn(200), edgecolor='r', zorder=5, alpha=0.5) hist(randn(500), edgecolor='g', zorder=4, alpha=0.5) Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
