title: how to change the dimensions of a histogram depicted by plt.hist() as figsize is not an argument
body: <p>I am trying to plot a histogram with a series using numpy array. </p>
  
  <pre><code>n,bins,patch = plt.hist(ser,bins=10, color='green', alpha=0.8, label='Value', edgecolor='orange', linewidth=2)
  plt.legend()
  plt.ylabel('No of bags', size='x-large')
  plt.xlabel('Money in US $', size= 'x-large')
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>IT is working well but the size is spo small. I tried using <code>olt.hist(figsize=(8,8))</code> but it throws error as expected.</p>
  
  <p>How can I increase the size of my histogram figure?</p>