hist

Draws a histogram of the DataFrame's columns.

A histogram is a representation of the distribution of data.

Syntax

hist(column=None, bins=10, **kwargs)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
column	str or list of str, optional	Column name or list of names to use for creating the histogram. If None (default), all numeric columns are used.
bins	int, optional	Number of histogram bins to use. Default: 10.
**kwargs	optional	Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

plotly.graph_objs.Figure

Examples

Python

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
data = [(5.1, 3.5, 0), (4.9, 3.0, 0), (7.0, 3.2, 1), (6.4, 3.2, 1), (5.9, 3.0, 2)]
columns = ["length", "width", "species"]
df = spark.createDataFrame(data, columns)
df.plot.hist(bins=4)