From d555682cfc70836b166a9d315504e915c8dcb5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clark Fitzgerald <clark.fitzgerald@climate.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:31:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: GH10485 'Frequency' label for Series.plot

---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt | 2 ++
 pandas/tests/test_graphics.py   | 4 ++--
 pandas/tools/plotting.py        | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
index 08222ef06d21f..05b69bae42c28 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
@@ -143,3 +143,5 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in `Series.from_csv` with ``header`` kwarg not setting the ``Series.name`` or the ``Series.index.name`` (:issue:`10483`)
 
 - Bug in `groupby.var` which caused variance to be inaccurate for small float values (:issue:`10448`)
+
+- Bug in ``Series.plot(kind='hist')`` Y Label not informative (:issue:`10485`)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py b/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
index 2fbb4dfc6fd91..d72bc420b2388 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
@@ -1001,12 +1001,12 @@ def test_kde_missing_vals(self):
     def test_hist_kwargs(self):
         ax = self.ts.plot(kind='hist', bins=5)
         self.assertEqual(len(ax.patches), 5)
-        self._check_text_labels(ax.yaxis.get_label(), 'Degree')
+        self._check_text_labels(ax.yaxis.get_label(), 'Frequency')
         tm.close()
 
         if self.mpl_ge_1_3_1:
             ax = self.ts.plot(kind='hist', orientation='horizontal')
-            self._check_text_labels(ax.xaxis.get_label(), 'Degree')
+            self._check_text_labels(ax.xaxis.get_label(), 'Frequency')
             tm.close()
 
             ax = self.ts.plot(kind='hist', align='left', stacked=True)
diff --git a/pandas/tools/plotting.py b/pandas/tools/plotting.py
index 3265889e4b268..07d7ced02e6ba 100644
--- a/pandas/tools/plotting.py
+++ b/pandas/tools/plotting.py
@@ -2005,10 +2005,10 @@ def _make_plot(self):
     def _post_plot_logic(self):
         if self.orientation == 'horizontal':
             for ax in self.axes:
-                ax.set_xlabel('Degree')
+                ax.set_xlabel('Frequency')
         else:
             for ax in self.axes:
-                ax.set_ylabel('Degree')
+                ax.set_ylabel('Frequency')
 
     @property
     def orientation(self):