Plot correlation matrix using pandas

Question

I have a data set with huge number of features, so analysing the correlation matrix has become very difficult. I want to plot a correlation matrix which we get using d

Answer 1

Try this function, which also displays variable names for the correlation matrix:

def plot_corr(df,size=10):
    '''Function plots a graphical correlation matrix for each pair of columns in the dataframe.

    Input:
        df: pandas DataFrame
        size: vertical and horizontal size of the plot'''

    corr = df.corr()
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(size, size))
    ax.matshow(corr)
    plt.xticks(range(len(corr.columns)), corr.columns);
    plt.yticks(range(len(corr.columns)), corr.columns);

Answer 2

You can use pyplot.matshow() from matplotlib:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.matshow(dataframe.corr())
plt.show()

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Edit:

In the comments was a request for how to change the axis tick labels. Here's a deluxe version that is drawn on a bigger figure size, has axis labels to match the dataframe, and a colorbar legend to interpret the color scale.

I'm including how to adjust the size and rotation of the labels, and I'm using a figure ratio that makes the colorbar and the main figure come out the same height.

f = plt.figure(figsize=(19, 15))
plt.matshow(df.corr(), fignum=f.number)
plt.xticks(range(df.shape[1]), df.columns, fontsize=14, rotation=45)
plt.yticks(range(df.shape[1]), df.columns, fontsize=14)
cb = plt.colorbar()
cb.ax.tick_params(labelsize=14)
plt.title('Correlation Matrix', fontsize=16);

Answer 3

You can observe the relation between features either by drawing a heat map from seaborn or scatter matrix from pandas.

Scatter Matrix:

pd.scatter_matrix(dataframe, alpha = 0.3, figsize = (14,8), diagonal = 'kde');

If you want to visualize each feature's skewness as well - use seaborn pairplots.

sns.pairplot(dataframe)

Sns Heatmap:

import seaborn as sns

f, ax = pl.subplots(figsize=(10, 8))
corr = dataframe.corr()
sns.heatmap(corr, mask=np.zeros_like(corr, dtype=np.bool), cmap=sns.diverging_palette(220, 10, as_cmap=True),
            square=True, ax=ax)

The output will be a correlation map of the features. i.e. see the below example.

The correlation between grocery and detergents is high. Similarly:

Pdoducts With High Correlation:

1. Grocery and Detergents.

Products With Medium Correlation:

1. Milk and Grocery
2. Milk and Detergents_Paper

Products With Low Correlation:

1. Milk and Deli
2. Frozen and Fresh.
3. Frozen and Deli.

From Pairplots: You can observe same set of relations from pairplots or scatter matrix. But from these we can say that whether the data is normally distributed or not.

Note: The above is same graph taken from the data, which is used to draw heatmap.

Answer 4

You can use imshow() method from matplotlib

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use('ggplot')

plt.imshow(X.corr(), cmap=plt.cm.Reds, interpolation='nearest')
plt.colorbar()
tick_marks = [i for i in range(len(X.columns))]
plt.xticks(tick_marks, X.columns, rotation='vertical')
plt.yticks(tick_marks, X.columns)
plt.show()

Answer 5

If you dataframe is df you can simply use:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
sns.heatmap(df.corr(), annot=True)

Answer 6

Seaborn's heatmap version:

import seaborn as sns
corr = dataframe.corr()
sns.heatmap(corr, 
            xticklabels=corr.columns.values,
            yticklabels=corr.columns.values)