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How to plot bar graphs with same X coordinates side by side in Matplotlib?
To plot bar graphs with same X coordinates (G1, G2, G3, G4 and G5), side by side in matplotlib, we can take the following steps −
Create the following lists – labels, men_means and women_means with different data elements.
Return evenly spaced values within a given interval, using numpy.arrange() method.
Set the width variable, i.e., width=0.35.
Create fig and ax variables using subplots method, where default nrows and ncols are 1.
The bars are positioned at *x* with the given *align*\ment. Their dimensions are given by *height* and *width*. The vertical baseline is *bottom* (default 0), so create rect1 and rect2 using plt.bar() method.
Set the Y-axis label using plt.ylabel() method.
Set a title for the axes using set_title() method.
Get or set the current tick locations and labels of the X-axis using set_xticks() method.
Set X-axis tick labels of the grid using set_xticklabels() method.
Place a legend on the figure using legend() method.
Annotate the created bars (rect1 and rect2) with some label using autolabel() method (user-defined method).
To show the figure, use the plt.show() method.
Example
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True
labels = ['G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5']
men_means = [20, 34, 30, 35, 27]
women_means = [25, 32, 34, 20, 25]
x = np.arange(len(labels))
width = 0.35
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
rects1 = ax.bar(x - width / 2, men_means, width, label='Men')
rects2 = ax.bar(x + width / 2, women_means, width, label='Women')
ax.set_ylabel('Scores')
ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender')
ax.set_xticks(x)
ax.set_xticklabels(labels)
ax.legend()
def autolabel(rects):
for rect in rects:
height = rect.get_height()
ax.annotate('{}'.format(height),
xy=(rect.get_x() + rect.get_width() / 2, height),
xytext=(0, 3), # 3 points vertical offset
textcoords="offset points",
ha='center', va='bottom')
autolabel(rects1)
autolabel(rects2)
plt.show()Output
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