Seaborn Kdeplot – A Comprehensive Guide

Kernel Density Estimate (KDE) Plot and Kdeplot allows us to estimate the probability density function of the continuous or non-parametric from our data set curve in one or more dimensions it means we can create plot a single graph for multiple samples which helps in more efficient data visualization.

In order to use the Seaborn module, we need to install the module using the below command:

pip install seaborn

Syntax: seaborn.kdeplot(x=None, *, y=None, vertical=False, palette=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

x, y : vectors or keys in data

vertical : boolean (True or False)

data : pandas.DataFrame, numpy.ndarray, mapping, or sequence

We learn the usage of some parameters through some specific examples:

First import the corresponding library

Draw a simple one-dimensional kde image:

Let’s see the Kde of our variable x-axis and y-axis, so let pass the x variable into the kdeplot() methods.

Output:

Then after check for y-axis.

Output:

Use Shade to fill the area covered by curve:  

We can highlight the plot using shade to the area covered by the curve. If True, shadow processing is performed in the area below the kde curve, and color controls the color of the curve and shadow

Output:

You can change the Shade color with color attributes:

Output:

Use Vertical to draw indicates whether to draw on the X axis or on the Y axis

Output:

Bivariate Kdeplot for two variables: 

Simple pass the two variables into the seaborn.kdeplot() methods.

Output:

Shade the area covered by a curve with shade attributes:

Output:

Now you can change the color with cmap attributes:

Output:

Use of Cbar: If True, add a colorbar to annotate the color mapping in a bivariate plot. Note: Does not currently support plots with a hue variable well.

Output:

Let see the example with Iris Dataset which is plot distributions for each column of a wide-form dataset:

Iris data set consists of 3 different types of irises’ (Setosa, Versicolour, and Virginica) petal and sepal length, stored in a 150×4 numpy.ndarray

Loading the iris dataset for Kdeplot:

Output:

Bivariate Kdeplot for two variables of iris:

Once we have species set then if we want to simply calculate the petal_length and petal_width then Simple pass the two variables(Setosa and virginica ) into the seaborn.kdeplot() methods.

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See another example if we want to calculate another variable attribute which is sepal_width and sepal_length.

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If we pass the two separate Kdeplot with different variable:

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