python histogram with log scale on both x and y axes

Question

I'm trying to plot a histogram of a list of 48103 positive integers, ranging from 1 to over 400,000. If I use the default settings, I get the following thoroughly unhelpful plot:

The following question explains how to make the x-axis logarithmic: plotting a histogram on a Log scale with Matplotlib

But I don't think that will be enough. I need to make the y-axis logarithmic too.

How do I do that?

Thanks

You can use the code you wrote to change the `x` scale, and then change all `x` to `y` — warped, Mar 08 '20 at 11:02
"I don't think that will be enough". Why not. Did you try and run into problems? — Mad Physicist, Mar 08 '20 at 13:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '20 at 13:11

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Ok, this works:

plt.hist(data,bins=[1,10,100,1000,10000,100000,1000000])
plt.xscale('log')
plt.yscale('log')
plt.show()```

answered Mar 08 '20 at 13:11

J.D.

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