I encountered a problem on creating a difference map between two matplotlib.pyplot
hexbin
plots, which means to get the value differences of each corresponding hexbin
first and then create a difference hexbin
map.
To give a simple example of my problem here, say the value of one hexbin
in Map 1 is 3 and the value of the corresponding hexbin
in Map 2 is 2, what I would like to do is to get the difference 3 – 2 = 1 first and then plot it in a new hexbin map, i.e. a difference map, at the same positions as Map 1 and Map 2.
My input codes and output plots are as follows. Could anyone please give me a solution to this problem?
Thanks for your time!
In [1]: plt.hexbin(lon_origin_df, lat_origin_df)
Out[1]: <matplotlib.collections.PolyCollection at 0x13ff40610>
In [2]: plt.hexbin(lon_termination_df, lat_termination_df)
Out[2]: <matplotlib.collections.PolyCollection at 0x13fff49d0>
It's possible to get the values from a h=hexbin()
using h.get_values()
, and set the values using h.set_values()
, so you could create a new hexbin
and set its values to the difference between the other two. For example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as pl
x = np.random.random(200)
y1 = np.random.random(200)
y2 = np.random.random(200)
pl.figure()
pl.subplot(131)
h1=pl.hexbin(x, y1, gridsize=3, vmin=0, vmax=40, cmap=pl.cm.RdBu_r)
pl.colorbar()
pl.subplot(132)
h2=pl.hexbin(x, y2, gridsize=3, vmin=0, vmax=40, cmap=pl.cm.RdBu_r)
pl.colorbar()
pl.subplot(133)
# Create dummy hexbin using whatever data..:
h3=pl.hexbin(x, y2, gridsize=3, vmin=-10, vmax=10, cmap=pl.cm.RdBu_r)
h3.set_array(h1.get_array()-h2.get_array())
pl.colorbar()