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Making heatmap from pandas DataFrame

I have a dataframe generated from Python's Pandas package. How can I generate heatmap using DataFrame from pandas package. 

import numpy as np 
from pandas import *

Index= ['aaa','bbb','ccc','ddd','eee']
Cols = ['A', 'B', 'C','D']
df = DataFrame(abs(np.random.randn(5, 4)), index= Index, columns=Cols)

>>> df
          A         B         C         D
aaa  2.431645  1.248688  0.267648  0.613826
bbb  0.809296  1.671020  1.564420  0.347662
ccc  1.501939  1.126518  0.702019  1.596048
ddd  0.137160  0.147368  1.504663  0.202822
eee  0.134540  3.708104  0.309097  1.641090
>>>
Solution

  • You want matplotlib.pcolor:

    import numpy as np 
from pandas import DataFrame
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

index = ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'ddd', 'eee']
columns = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
df = DataFrame(abs(np.random.randn(5, 4)), index=index, columns=columns)

plt.pcolor(df)
plt.yticks(np.arange(0.5, len(df.index), 1), df.index)
plt.xticks(np.arange(0.5, len(df.columns), 1), df.columns)
plt.show()

    This gives:

    Output sample