Here is a tip to turn your barplot horizontal with matplotlib. To do so just call the barh() function instead of bar().
# libraries import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Make fake dataset height = [3, 12, 5, 18, 45] bars = ('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E') y_pos = np.arange(len(bars)) # Create horizontal bars plt.barh(y_pos, height) # Create names on the y-axis plt.yticks(y_pos, bars) # Show graphic plt.show()