This topic describes the plotting feature that is provided by Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute SDK for Python (PyODPS) DataFrame.

To enable the plotting feature, install the pandas and Matplotlib libraries.

Run the pip install matplotlib command to install the Matplotlib library, and run the following sample code in Jupyter to create plots.

Sample code for plotting

  • Single-line plot 
    >>> from odps.df import DataFrame
>>> iris = DataFrame(o.get_table('pyodps_iris'))
>>> %matplotlib inline
>>> iris.sepalwidth.plot()
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x10c2b3510>
  • Multi-line plot 
    >>> iris.plot()
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x10db7e690>
  • Vertical bar plot 
    >>> iris.groupby('name').sum().plot(kind='bar', x='name', stacked=True, rot=30)
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x10c5f2090>
  • Histogram 
    >>> iris.hist(sharex=True)
array([[<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x10e013f90>,
        <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x10e2d1c10>],
       [<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x10e353f10>,
        <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x10e3c4410>]], dtype=object)
The kind parameter specifies the plot type. The following table lists the plot types that are supported by PyODPS DataFrame. For more information, see pandas.DataFrame.plot.
kind Description
line The line plot
bar The vertical bar plot
barh The horizontal bar plot
hist The histogram
box The box plot
kde The kernel density estimation plot
density The kernel density estimation plot
area The area plot
pie The pie plot
scatter The scatter plot
hexbin The hexagonal bin plot
The plot function also supports the following parameters.
Parameter Description
xlabel Specifies the label for the x-axis.
ylabel Specifies the label for the y-axis.
xlabelsize Specifies the size of label for the x-axis.
ylabelsize Specifies the size of the label for the y-axis.
labelsize Specifies the size of the label for the axis.
title Specifies the name of the title.
titlesize Specifies the size of the title.
annotate Specifies whether to add an annotation.