python plot and powerlaw fit

Question

I have the following list:

[6, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 1, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2]

I want to plot the frequency of each entity with python and make a powerlaw analysis on it.

But I cannot figure how I can plot the list with ylabel the frequency and xlabel the numbers on the list.

I thought to create a dict with the frequencies and plot the values of the dictionary, but with that way, I cannot put the numbers on xlabel.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Use the package: powerlaw

import powerlaw
d=[6, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 1, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3,2,  3, 3, 2, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1,0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1,3, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2]
fit = powerlaw.Fit(numpy.array(d)+1,xmin=1,discrete=True)
fit.power_law.plot_pdf( color= 'b',linestyle='--',label='fit ccdf')
fit.plot_pdf( color= 'b')

print('alpha= ',fit.power_law.alpha,'  sigma= ',fit.power_law.sigma)

alpha= 1.85885487521 sigma= 0.0858854875209

It allow to plot, fit and analyse the data correctly. It has as special method for fit on power law distributions with discrete data.

it can be installed with: pip install powerlaw