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Plots a series using the Seaborn histogram plot with kde and, mean, mode, and median lines in Jupyter / iPython
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## handy multi-plot function for showing mode, median, and mean lines in a distplot | |
## (but using histplot since distplot is deprecated) | |
## Author - Abram Flansburg | |
## Intended for use in Jupyter / iPython | |
def skewness_plot(series): | |
""" | |
Plots a series using the histogram plot with kde and plots, mean, mode, and median lines. | |
*** Dependencies *** | |
Series must be a pandas.Series | |
Seaborn must be imported as sns | |
matplotlib.pyplot must be imported as plt | |
""" | |
sns.set_style("whitegrid", {'axes.grid' : False}) | |
fig, ax = plt.subplots() | |
plt.title(series.name) | |
# this could probably be done in less lines somehow.... | |
mean_line = ax.twinx() | |
mean_line.axis('off') | |
med_line = mean_line.twinx() | |
med_line.axis('off') | |
mode_line = med_line.twinx() | |
mode_line.axis('off') | |
mean_line.plot([series.mean(),series.mean()], ax.get_ylim(), scaley=False, color='red') | |
mean_line.legend([f"Mean = {round(series.mean(),2)}"]) | |
med_line.plot([series.median(),series.median()], ax.get_ylim(), scaley=False, color='green',linestyle="dotted") | |
med_line.legend([f"Median = {round(series.median(),2)}"],loc=1,bbox_to_anchor=(1,.95)) | |
mode_line.plot([series.mode(),series.mode()], ax.get_ylim(), scaley=False, color='yellow',linestyle="dashed") | |
mode_line.legend([f"Mode = {series.mode().iloc[0]}"],loc=1,bbox_to_anchor=(1,.90)) | |
sns.histplot(series,bins=10, ax=ax, kde=True); | |
# Using ^ in place of .distplot - just need to add kde=True |
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