How can I do bins and Histograms in Bokeh?

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Hi,

I’m back to using Bokeh from another plotting platform and I’m completely lost. I have a very simple example that should bin plotting bins as histograms, but I can’t seem to be able to get the bokeh API to work.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

def construct_labels(start, end):
    labels = []
    for index, x in enumerate(start):
        y = end[index]
        labels.append('({}, {}]'.format(x, y))
    return labels


values = {'Length': np.random.uniform(0, 4, 10)}
df = pd.DataFrame(values, columns=['Length'])

bin_step_size = 0.5

# List of bin points.
p_bins = np.arange(0, (df['Length'].max() + bin_step_size), bin_step_size)

# Reduce the tail to create the left side bounds.
p_left_limits = p_bins[:-1].copy()

# Cut the head to create the right side bounds.
p_right_limits = np.delete(p_bins, 0)

# Create the bins.
p_range_bins = pd.IntervalIndex.from_arrays(p_left_limits, p_right_limits)

# Create labels.
p_range_labels = construct_labels(p_left_limits, p_right_limits)

p_ranges_binned = pd.cut(
    df['Length'],
    p_range_bins,
    labels=p_range_labels,
    precision=0,
    include_lowest=True)

counts = p_ranges_binned.value_counts(sort=False)

… and from here I’m pretty much lost. I can plot the above in matplotlib now, and it looks like this. But I just can’t figure out what was the Bokeh way :frowning:

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Have you seen the examples at Handling categorical data — Bokeh 2.4.2 Documentation?
Have you tried modifying one of them to your use case?

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3

I started with this one, and I got a bit lost: bar_colormapped.py — Bokeh 2.2.0 Documentation

Let me try this one. Thanks!

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Got it, thank you!

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output_file("bars.html")
out = p_ranges_binned
counts = out.value_counts(sort=False)

bin_labels = p_range_labels

p = figure(x_range=bin_labels, plot_height=250, title="Range Counts",
           toolbar_location=None, tools="")

p.vbar(x=bin_labels, top=counts, width=0.9)

p.xgrid.grid_line_color = None
p.y_range.start = 0

show(p)
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If you actually want histogram (which has a continuous axis) is there a reason you are implementing it with bar chart (which has a categorical axis)? That is bound to make things more complicated than necessary.

This is how I would normally draw a histogram:

hist, edges = np.histogram(data, density=True)

p = figure()
p.quad(top=hist, left=edges[:-1], right=edges[1:], line_color="white")

Edit: updated to use quad

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Let me try this. I have already build the bins, but let me try if I can change things a bit to use your example.

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Just to be clear, the fundamental difference is not how the bin are built (e.g. np.histrogram or somethign else, it doesn’t matter). But whether you pass a list of string (categorical) labels as the range, instead of just using the bar edge coordinates.

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I’m getting an error:

Apologies, should be quad not vbar (answer updated)

9

Cool, seems to be working. Thank you.

Ideally, I will need to have percentages on the left (y-scale), is there a built in way, or should I rework that myself? I would like to show, like %5 instead of the count. Indicating that %5 of the values are in bin (0.5, 1.5]

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There are lots of options for formatting tick labels:

I’d suggest giving things a try and asking a (new, separate) question if you get stuck

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Sure, thank you. Could you please help me to find the documentation for the quad() method, is it this one?

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Yes, also described in the users guide