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Matplotlib 2.1 breaks Bayesian Blocks histogram

See original GitHub issue

You can see this difference between the stable and latest astropy docs:

With matplotlib 2.0:

histogram-3

With matplotlib 2.1:

histogram-3-1

I suspect matplotlib has somehow changed the internals of how the normed=True machinery works, in a way that only manifests if bins are unequal sized.

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Created 6 years ago
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jakevdpcommented, Oct 24, 2017

Seems to be somehow related to matplotlib introducing the density argument to replace the normed argument, due to some changes in how numpy handles these arguments upstream. I’ll wait for advice from the matplotlib devs before doing any fix.

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jakevdpcommented, Oct 27, 2017

Fixes & regression tests are now merged into the 2.1.x matplotlib branch, and this will be fixed in the next bugfix release (I’m not certain when that is planned).

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