2D histogram as an alternative to the scatter plot?

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2D histogram as an alternative to the scatter plot? #156

Open MihailoIsakov opened 3 years ago

MihailoIsakov commented 3 years ago

Are there any plans for building support for plotting 2D histograms (e.g., like the pyplot 2dhist or hexbin)? When working on larger datasets, it's difficult to estimate density in scatterplots, and adding jitter often does not help.

danthe3rd commented 3 years ago

Hi @MihailoIsakov That's a very valid use-case, and indeed it can be hard to estimate densities in scatterplots. However, it's not planned as of now ...