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# pandas.DataFrame.hist

`DataFrame.``hist`(data, column=None, by=None, grid=True, xlabelsize=None, xrot=None, ylabelsize=None, yrot=None, ax=None, sharex=False, sharey=False, figsize=None, layout=None, **kwds)

  Draw histogram of the DataFrame’s series using matplotlib / pylab.

  Parameters : | data : DataFrame column : string or sequence If passed, will be used to limit data to a subset of columns by : object, optional If passed, then used to form histograms for separate groups 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 ax : matplotlib axes object, default None sharex : bool, if True, the X axis will be shared amongst all subplots. sharey : bool, if True, the Y axis will be shared amongst all subplots. figsize : tuple The size of the figure to create in inches by default layout: (optional) a tuple (rows, columns) for the layout of the histograms kwds : other plotting keyword arguments To be passed to hist function

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