Plot correlation matrix using pandas

Question

I have a data set with huge number of features, so analysing the correlation matrix has become very difficult. I want to plot a correlation matrix which we get using dataframe.corr() function from pandas library. Is there any built-in function provided by the pandas library to plot this matrix?

Answer 1

You can use pyplot.matshow() from matplotlib:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.matshow(dataframe.corr())
plt.show()

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Edit:

In the comments was a request for how to change the axis tick labels. Here's a deluxe version that is drawn on a bigger figure size, has axis labels to match the dataframe, and a colorbar legend to interpret the color scale.

I'm including how to adjust the size and rotation of the labels, and I'm using a figure ratio that makes the colorbar and the main figure come out the same height.

f = plt.figure(figsize=(19, 15))
plt.matshow(df.corr(), fignum=f.number)
plt.xticks(range(df.shape[1]), df.columns, fontsize=14, rotation=45)
plt.yticks(range(df.shape[1]), df.columns, fontsize=14)
cb = plt.colorbar()
cb.ax.tick_params(labelsize=14)
plt.title('Correlation Matrix', fontsize=16);