Multiple histograms in Pandas

Question

I would like to create the following histogram (see image below) taken from the book \"Think Stats\". However, I cannot get them on the same plot. Each DataFrame takes its o

Answer 1

In case anyone wants to plot one histogram over another (rather than alternating bars) you can simply call .hist() consecutively on the series you want to plot:

%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas


np.random.seed(0)
df = pandas.DataFrame(np.random.normal(size=(37,2)), columns=['A', 'B'])

df['A'].hist()
df['B'].hist()

This gives you:

Note that the order you call .hist() matters (the first one will be at the back)