ecdf with normed histogram
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Description
I really like the plotly.express.ecdf and have been using it a lot in my daily work.
When I show ecdf plots in meetings, I usually show it with marginal='histogram', since this is easier understandable for the non-data-scientists in the room.
However, since the amount of data varies I would like to have a normalized histogram, i.e. have percent values.
I know this would be possible with subplots, but there are really a lot of ugly adjustments to make.
So a solution could be to show the percentage in the hint as well, or something like histnorm from plotly.express.histogram.
Example for easy testing:
import plotly.express as px
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
# Generate random data
np.random.seed(42) # For reproducibility
data = np.random.normal(loc=0, scale=1, size=1000) # Normal distribution data
# Create a pandas dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'Values': data})
# Create ECDF plot with histogram
fig = px.ecdf(data,
ecdfnorm='percent',
marginal='histogram')
# Show the figure
fig.show()
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Research direction
Start with the px.ecdf entry point and compare how marginal='histogram' is configured with histnorm in px.histogram. Determine whether normalized marginal bins or percentage hover information is the intended behavior, then verify the result with the provided NumPy and pandas example; done means the ECDF histogram marginal can represent percentages without manual subplots.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- numpy, pandas, plotly, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100