Create histogram with greater than symbol in x axis in pyplot I wanted to create a histogram from a list of positive integers. I want to bin it so that I show all single numbers, say K through N, with more than k elements in the data set, as well as the number of elements greater than N. 

'''
The goal is to max a histogram from integer data.
The last bin should represent all cases with at least K elements.
 x x                    x x
 x x x                  x x x x
 x x x   x x    ----&gt;   x x x x
____________           __________
 1 2 3 4 5 6            1 2 3 &gt;3
'''
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# Insert your favorite integer data here
data = [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6]

# Vanilla histogram for reference
hist, bins = np.histogram(data, bins=np.arange(1, 15))
center = (bins[:-1] + bins[1:]) / 2 - 0.5
f, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.bar(center, hist, align='center', edgecolor='k')
ax.set_xticks(center)
ax.set_title('vanilla hist')
plt.savefig('vanillahist')
plt.clf()


# Select the point after the last time we see at least k elements
K = 2
maxnum = bins[1:-1][np.abs(np.diff(hist &gt;= K)) &gt; 0][-1]

# filter the bins from numpy to only contain this point and those prior
center = bins[bins &lt;= maxnum]

# filter frequency data from numpy;
# bins/hist are ordered so that the first entries line up
newhist = hist[(bins[:-1] &lt;= maxnum)]
newhist[-1] += np.sum(hist[(bins[:-1] &gt; maxnum)])

# make the plot, hopefully as advertised!
f, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.bar(center, newhist, align='center', edgecolor='k')
ax.set_xticks(center)
ax.set_xticklabels(list(center[:-1].astype(int)) + ['&gt; %i' % (maxnum - 1)])
plt.savefig('myhist')
plt.clf()


This involved a lot of trial and error, and I'm still not 100% sure this can handle all cases, though it's passed every test I've tried so far. Could I have made this code more readable? I feel particularly unsure about lines 28-38. My justification for the [:-1] line is that the first entry of bins corresponds to the first entry of hist.
Nice work! You might also be interested in Matplotlib histogram with collection bin for high values.

I like the ascii-art explanation :-)

Things I see that could improve the code:


Put the histogram building in a function. This way others can import it / use it / copy-paste it more easily. Then it also becomes clearer what is the required input (data) and what are parameters that could be set by default (K, bins, title).
The name center is misleading. It is a list. And in fact those are the bins. So I would call it bins, overwriting the old value.
Instead of newhist you could call it bin_values or bin_heights.