.. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_statistics_violinplot.py: ================== Violin plot basics ================== Violin plots are similar to histograms and box plots in that they show an abstract representation of the probability distribution of the sample. Rather than showing counts of data points that fall into bins or order statistics, violin plots use kernel density estimation (KDE) to compute an empirical distribution of the sample. That computation is controlled by several parameters. This example demonstrates how to modify the number of points at which the KDE is evaluated (``points``) and how to modify the band-width of the KDE (``bw_method``). For more information on violin plots and KDE, the scikit-learn docs have a great section: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/density.html .. image:: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_violinplot_001.png :alt: Violin Plotting Examples, Custom violinplot 1, Custom violinplot 2, Custom violinplot 3, Custom violinplot 4, Custom violinplot 5, Custom violinplot 6, Custom violinplot 7, Custom violinplot 8, Custom violinplot 9, Custom violinplot 10 :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) # fake data fs = 10 # fontsize pos = [1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8] data = [np.random.normal(0, std, size=100) for std in pos] fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=5, figsize=(10, 6)) axs[0, 0].violinplot(data, pos, points=20, widths=0.3, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True) axs[0, 0].set_title('Custom violinplot 1', fontsize=fs) axs[0, 1].violinplot(data, pos, points=40, widths=0.5, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, bw_method='silverman') axs[0, 1].set_title('Custom violinplot 2', fontsize=fs) axs[0, 2].violinplot(data, pos, points=60, widths=0.7, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, bw_method=0.5) axs[0, 2].set_title('Custom violinplot 3', fontsize=fs) axs[0, 3].violinplot(data, pos, points=60, widths=0.7, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, bw_method=0.5, quantiles=[[0.1], [], [], [0.175, 0.954], [0.75], [0.25]]) axs[0, 3].set_title('Custom violinplot 4', fontsize=fs) axs[0, 4].violinplot(data[-1:], pos[-1:], points=60, widths=0.7, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, quantiles=[0.05, 0.1, 0.8, 0.9], bw_method=0.5) axs[0, 4].set_title('Custom violinplot 5', fontsize=fs) axs[1, 0].violinplot(data, pos, points=80, vert=False, widths=0.7, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True) axs[1, 0].set_title('Custom violinplot 6', fontsize=fs) axs[1, 1].violinplot(data, pos, points=100, vert=False, widths=0.9, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, bw_method='silverman') axs[1, 1].set_title('Custom violinplot 7', fontsize=fs) axs[1, 2].violinplot(data, pos, points=200, vert=False, widths=1.1, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, bw_method=0.5) axs[1, 2].set_title('Custom violinplot 8', fontsize=fs) axs[1, 3].violinplot(data, pos, points=200, vert=False, widths=1.1, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, quantiles=[[0.1], [], [], [0.175, 0.954], [0.75], [0.25]], bw_method=0.5) axs[1, 3].set_title('Custom violinplot 9', fontsize=fs) axs[1, 4].violinplot(data[-1:], pos[-1:], points=200, vert=False, widths=1.1, showmeans=True, showextrema=True, showmedians=True, quantiles=[0.05, 0.1, 0.8, 0.9], bw_method=0.5) axs[1, 4].set_title('Custom violinplot 10', fontsize=fs) for ax in axs.flat: ax.set_yticklabels([]) fig.suptitle("Violin Plotting Examples") fig.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.4) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_statistics_violinplot.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: violinplot.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: violinplot.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_