# pandas.Series.hist

`Series.``hist`(by=None, ax=None, grid=True, xlabelsize=None, xrot=None, ylabelsize=None, yrot=None, figsize=None, bins=10, **kwds)

  Draw histogram of the input series using matplotlib

  Parameters:

  by : object, optional

  > If passed, then used to form histograms for separate groups

  ax : matplotlib axis object

  > If not passed, uses gca()

  grid : boolean, default True

  > Whether to show axis grid lines

  xlabelsize : int, default None

  > If specified changes the x-axis label size

  xrot : float, default None

  > rotation of x axis labels

  ylabelsize : int, default None

  > If specified changes the y-axis label size

  yrot : float, default None

  > rotation of y axis labels

  figsize : tuple, default None

  > figure size in inches by default

  bins: integer, default 10

  > Number of histogram bins to be used

  kwds : keywords

  > To be passed to the actual plotting function

  Notes

  See matplotlib documentation online for more on this