Re: [Matplotlib-users] Integer equal-width bins for histograms

2014-05-30 Thread Antony Lee
Yes, I understand there are alternatives -- but I still think a simple, binned histogram is a fairly basic feature. KDEs are nice but can easily be overtweaked (if I see one I certainly want to know how the bandwidth was selected, otherwise it's not better than a histogram -- even worse, as the iss

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Integer equal-width bins for histograms

2014-05-30 Thread Antony Lee
I can still need to bin data, e.g. when the data range is "large", or at least not small compared to the number of data points. Antony 2014-05-30 5:03 GMT-07:00 Yoshi Rokuko : > Am Thu, 29 May 2014 14:14:52 -0700 > schrieb Antony Lee : > > > Hi, > > When histogramming integer data, is there an e

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Integer equal-width bins for histograms

2014-05-30 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
Am Thu, 29 May 2014 14:14:52 -0700 schrieb Antony Lee : > Hi, > When histogramming integer data, is there an easy way to tell > matplotlib that I want a certain number of bins, and each bin to > cover an equal number of integers (except possibly the last one)? > (in order to avoid having some bins

[Matplotlib-users] Integer equal-width bins for histograms

2014-05-29 Thread Antony Lee
Hi, When histogramming integer data, is there an easy way to tell matplotlib that I want a certain number of bins, and each bin to cover an equal number of integers (except possibly the last one)? (in order to avoid having some bins higher than others merely because they cover more integers) I kno