watex.view.ExPlot.plotbv#

ExPlot.plotbv(xname=None, yname=None, kind='box', **kwd)[source]#

Visualize distributions using the box, boxen or violin plots.

Parameters:

  • xname (vectors or keys in data) – Variables that specify positions on the x and y axes. Both are the column names to consider. Shoud be items in the dataframe columns. Raise an error if elements do not exist.

  • yname (vectors or keys in data) – Variables that specify positions on the x and y axes. Both are the column names to consider. Shoud be items in the dataframe columns. Raise an error if elements do not exist.

  • kind (str) – style of the plot. Can be [‘box’|’boxen’|’violin’]. default is box

  • kwd (dict,) – Other keyword arguments are passed down to seaborn.boxplot .

Returns:

  • ``self`` (ExPlot instance and returns self for easy)

  • method chaining.

Example

>>> from watex.datasets import fetch_data
>>> from watex.view import ExPlot
>>> data = fetch_data ('bagoue original').get('data=dfy1')
>>> p= ExPlot(tname='flow').fit(data)
>>> p.plotbv(xname='flow', yname='sfi', kind='violin')