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# pandas.Series.hist

`Series.``hist`(by=None, ax=None, grid=True, xlabelsize=None, xrot=None, ylabelsize=None, yrot=None, figsize=None, bins=10, **kwds)

  Draw histogram of the input series using matplotlib

  Parameters : | by : object, optional If passed, then used to form histograms for separate groups ax : matplotlib axis object If not passed, uses gca() grid : boolean, default True Whether to show axis grid lines xlabelsize : int, default None If specified changes the x-axis label size xrot : float, default None rotation of x axis labels ylabelsize : int, default None If specified changes the y-axis label size yrot : float, default None rotation of y axis labels figsize : tuple, default None figure size in inches by default bins: integer, default 10 Number of histogram bins to be used kwds : keywords To be passed to the actual plotting function

  Notes

  See matplotlib documentation online for more on this

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