hi all, thank you for your replies. my original message wasn't detailed enough. what i am looking for is a hexbin plot, where points are binned into hexagons and then hexagons are plotted in size proportional to the points in the bin. i think the links provided are very relevant for this,
but one thing i cannot information on is: how can i make an automatic legend for such plots, where hex bins of varying sizes are shown to tell the viewer how many points fall into each bin size? to make this clear, i am looking for something like this: http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/gallery/fig/fig12.png where instead of bubbles, we have hexbins, and the legend on the right gives a mapping from differently sized hex bins to the number of points in that hexbin. any help on this would be greatly appreciated. thanks. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Hunter<jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Ryan May<rma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> is there a way to do this in matplotlib? thanks for your help. >> >> Not to be rude, but is there any reason you didn't look for pyplot.hexbin >> before sending the email? :) > > Continuing in the non-rude vein :-) See these examples:: > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/hexbin_demo.html > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/hexbin_demo2.html > > and this doc string:: > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.hexbin > > Have fun! > JDH > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
