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- #5 Space between bars
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- #5 Custom width of bars
This post explains 1/ how to control width of bars in a barplot 2/ how to control space between them – with matplotlib.
- Control space
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# library import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Make fake dataset height = [3, 12, 5, 18, 45] bars = ('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E') # Choose the position of each barplots on the x-axis (space=1,4,3,1) y_pos = [0,1,5,8,9] # Create bars plt.bar(y_pos, height) # Create names on the x-axis plt.xticks(y_pos, bars) # Show graphic plt.show() - Control width
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# library import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Make fake dataset height = [3, 12, 5, 18, 45] bars = ('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E') # Choose the width of each bar and their positions width = [0.1,0.2,3,1.5,0.3] y_pos = [0,0.3,2,4.5,5.5] # Make the plot plt.bar(y_pos, height, width=width) plt.xticks(y_pos, bars) plt.show()
