Seaborn distplot for dates

seaborn dates distplot.py

import datetime
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Generate dates -- change by your actual dates!
dates = [datetime.datetime.fromordinal(int(d)) for d in (43 * np.random.randn(200) + 737555)]

# Go back to ordinal numbers...
ordinal_dates = np.array([d.toordinal() for d in dates])

sns.distplot(ordinal_dates, kde=True)

# Now, get the positions of the xticks
ticks_locations, _ = plt.xticks();
# Get the labels for those positions
labels = [datetime.datetime.fromordinal(int(t)).date() for t in ticks_locations]

plt.xticks(ticks_locations, labels, rotation=90)
plt.title("Date distribution");