Histograms "bins" parameter should be able to take a list of bin endpoints for unequal-sized bins about datascience HOT 4 CLOSED

@papajohn Is this for the hist method or for pivot_hist? (A quick explanation of the difference between the two would also be much appreciated!)

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Good question. This change refers to hist. hist draws a histogram for
each column (perhaps overlaid onto one chart).

pivot_hist may not be long for this world. It's equivalent to the
following for loop on a two-column table t with columns a and b,
except that it bins in the same way for every subplot and supports
overlays. I'd like to generalize it somehow, but haven't figured out the
right way yet.

for v in np.unique(t[a]):
  t.where(a, v).select([b]).rename(b, v).hist()

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Sam Lau [email protected] wrote:

@papajohn https://github.com/papajohn Is this for the hist method or
for pivot_hist? (A quick explanation of the difference between the two
would also be much appreciated!)

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By the way, I think this change may not be a change at all. The underlying matplotlib.hist method takes an array of bins or an integer bin count. If you find that there's nothing to change, just close the issue. http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.hist

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Looks like the underlying hist method has this functionality! Closing.

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