Seaborn现在有了jointplot函数，它应该在这里工作得很好:

import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Generate some test data
x = np.random.randn(8873)
y = np.random.randn(8873)

sns.jointplot(x=x, y=y, kind='hex')
plt.show()

下面是Jurgy使用scipy.cKDTree实现的最近邻方法。在我的测试中，它快了大约100倍。

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.cm as cm
from scipy.spatial import cKDTree


def data_coord2view_coord(p, resolution, pmin, pmax):
    dp = pmax - pmin
    dv = (p - pmin) / dp * resolution
    return dv


n = 1000
xs = np.random.randn(n)
ys = np.random.randn(n)

resolution = 250

extent = [np.min(xs), np.max(xs), np.min(ys), np.max(ys)]
xv = data_coord2view_coord(xs, resolution, extent[0], extent[1])
yv = data_coord2view_coord(ys, resolution, extent[2], extent[3])


def kNN2DDens(xv, yv, resolution, neighbours, dim=2):
    """
    """
    # Create the tree
    tree = cKDTree(np.array([xv, yv]).T)
    # Find the closest nnmax-1 neighbors (first entry is the point itself)
    grid = np.mgrid[0:resolution, 0:resolution].T.reshape(resolution**2, dim)
    dists = tree.query(grid, neighbours)
    # Inverse of the sum of distances to each grid point.
    inv_sum_dists = 1. / dists[0].sum(1)

    # Reshape
    im = inv_sum_dists.reshape(resolution, resolution)
    return im


fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(15, 15))
for ax, neighbours in zip(axes.flatten(), [0, 16, 32, 63]):

    if neighbours == 0:
        ax.plot(xs, ys, 'k.', markersize=5)
        ax.set_aspect('equal')
        ax.set_title("Scatter Plot")
    else:

        im = kNN2DDens(xv, yv, resolution, neighbours)

        ax.imshow(im, origin='lower', extent=extent, cmap=cm.Blues)
        ax.set_title("Smoothing over %d neighbours" % neighbours)
        ax.set_xlim(extent[0], extent[1])
        ax.set_ylim(extent[2], extent[3])

plt.savefig('new.png', dpi=150, bbox_inches='tight')

如果您正在使用1.2.x

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = np.random.randn(100000)
y = np.random.randn(100000)
plt.hist2d(x,y,bins=100)
plt.show()

恐怕我来晚了一点，但我之前也有一个类似的问题。接受的答案(@ptomato)帮助了我，但我也想张贴这个，以防它对某人有用。

''' I wanted to create a heatmap resembling a football pitch which would show the different actions performed '''

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import random

#fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(1234324)

fig = plt.figure(12)
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(122)

#Ratio of the pitch with respect to UEFA standards 
hmap= np.full((6, 10), 0)
#print(hmap)

xlist = np.random.uniform(low=0.0, high=100.0, size=(20))
ylist = np.random.uniform(low=0.0, high =100.0, size =(20))

#UEFA Pitch Standards are 105m x 68m
xlist = (xlist/100)*10.5
ylist = (ylist/100)*6.5

ax1.scatter(xlist,ylist)

#int of the co-ordinates to populate the array
xlist_int = xlist.astype (int)
ylist_int = ylist.astype (int)

#print(xlist_int, ylist_int)

for i, j in zip(xlist_int, ylist_int):
    #this populates the array according to the x,y co-ordinate values it encounters 
    hmap[j][i]= hmap[j][i] + 1   

#Reversing the rows is necessary 
hmap = hmap[::-1]

#print(hmap)
im = ax2.imshow(hmap)

这是结果

如果你不想要六边形，你可以使用numpy的histogram2d函数:

import numpy as np
import numpy.random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Generate some test data
x = np.random.randn(8873)
y = np.random.randn(8873)

heatmap, xedges, yedges = np.histogram2d(x, y, bins=50)
extent = [xedges[0], xedges[-1], yedges[0], yedges[-1]]

plt.clf()
plt.imshow(heatmap.T, extent=extent, origin='lower')
plt.show()

这是一个50x50的热图。如果你想要，比如说512x384，你可以在调用histogram2d时放入bins=(512,384)。

例子:

而不是用np。我想回收py-sphviewer，这是一个使用自适应平滑内核渲染粒子模拟的python包，可以很容易地从pip安装(见网页文档)。考虑以下基于示例的代码:

import numpy as np
import numpy.random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sphviewer as sph

def myplot(x, y, nb=32, xsize=500, ysize=500):   
    xmin = np.min(x)
    xmax = np.max(x)
    ymin = np.min(y)
    ymax = np.max(y)

    x0 = (xmin+xmax)/2.
    y0 = (ymin+ymax)/2.

    pos = np.zeros([len(x),3])
    pos[:,0] = x
    pos[:,1] = y
    w = np.ones(len(x))

    P = sph.Particles(pos, w, nb=nb)
    S = sph.Scene(P)
    S.update_camera(r='infinity', x=x0, y=y0, z=0, 
                    xsize=xsize, ysize=ysize)
    R = sph.Render(S)
    R.set_logscale()
    img = R.get_image()
    extent = R.get_extent()
    for i, j in zip(xrange(4), [x0,x0,y0,y0]):
        extent[i] += j
    print extent
    return img, extent
    
fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(10,10))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(221)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(222)
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(223)
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(224)


# Generate some test data
x = np.random.randn(1000)
y = np.random.randn(1000)

#Plotting a regular scatter plot
ax1.plot(x,y,'k.', markersize=5)
ax1.set_xlim(-3,3)
ax1.set_ylim(-3,3)

heatmap_16, extent_16 = myplot(x,y, nb=16)
heatmap_32, extent_32 = myplot(x,y, nb=32)
heatmap_64, extent_64 = myplot(x,y, nb=64)

ax2.imshow(heatmap_16, extent=extent_16, origin='lower', aspect='auto')
ax2.set_title("Smoothing over 16 neighbors")

ax3.imshow(heatmap_32, extent=extent_32, origin='lower', aspect='auto')
ax3.set_title("Smoothing over 32 neighbors")

#Make the heatmap using a smoothing over 64 neighbors
ax4.imshow(heatmap_64, extent=extent_64, origin='lower', aspect='auto')
ax4.set_title("Smoothing over 64 neighbors")

plt.show()

产生如下图像:

如你所见，这些图像看起来非常漂亮，我们能够识别出它上面不同的子结构。这些图像是在一个特定的域内为每个点扩展一个给定的权重，由平滑长度定义，而平滑长度又由到更近的nb邻居的距离给出(我选择了16,32和64作为示例)。因此，高密度区域通常分布在较小的区域，与低密度区域相比。

myplot函数是我写的一个非常简单的函数它是为了将x y数据交给py-sphviewer来完成这个魔术。