I'm working on a dataset of SMS records [datetime_entry, sms_sent] and I was looking to copy a really effective trend visual from a well cited Electricity demand study. Does anyone know the name of this plot, or the implementation of something similar in Python (as I'm not sure this was done in Python).
I know how to subplot the 4 charts after splitting the data by quarter, I'm just stumped on the plot type and stylization.
This is what matplotlib calls an eventplot.
Essentially each vertical line represents an occurance of a Mwh demand during that specific hour. So each row in the plot should have as many vertical lines as there are days in that quarter.
While it works in this plot for these data, relying on the combination of alpha level + data density can be slightly unreliable as the data change as the number of overlapping points is not readily visible. So you can also create a similar visualization using hist2d, where you manually specify your bins.
