Data Science Essentials in Python

Unit 42

Getting to Know Other Plot Types

In addition to contour and image plots, pyplot supports a variety of more conventional plot types: bar plots, box plots, histograms, pie charts, line plots, log and log-log plots, scatter plots, polar plots, step plots, and so on. The online pyplot gallery^[37] offers many examples, and the following table lists many of the pyplot plotting functions.

Table 5. Some pyplot Plot Types

Plot type	Function
Vertical bar plot	bar
Horizontal bar plot	barh
Box plot with “whiskers”	boxplot
Errorbar plot	errorbar
Histogram (can be vertical or horizontal)	hist
Log-log plot	loglog
Log plot in X	semilogx
Log plot in Y	semilogy
Pie chart	pie
Line plot	plot
Date plot	plot_dates
Polar plot	polar
Scatter plot (size and color of dots can be controlled) ...