-A 2D histogram, also known as a density heatmap, is the 2-dimensional generalization of a [histogram](/python/histograms/) which resembles a [heatmap](/python/heatmaps/) but is computed by grouping a set of points specifed by their `x` and `y` coordinates into bins, and applying an aggregation function such as `count` or `sum` (if `z` is provided) to compute the color of the tile representing the bin. This kind of visualization (and the related [2D histogram contour, or density contour](https://plotly.com/python/2d-histogram-contour/)) is often used to manage over-plotting, or situations where showing large data sets as [scatter plots](/python/line-and-scatter/) would result in points overlapping each other and hiding patterns. For data sets of more than a few thousand points, a better approach than the ones listed here would be to [use Plotly with Datashader](/python/datashader/) to precompute the aggregations before displaying the data with Plotly.
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