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Drawing horizontal bar plots in Matplotlib
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In Matplotlib, we can draw a horizontal bar plot using the barh(~) method:
# Our artificial dataheight = [20, 40, 17, 62]labels = ('Andy', 'Bob', 'Cathy', 'Dave')
y_pos = np.arange(len(labels)) # [0,1,2,3]
# Set the bar heightplt.barh(y_pos, height)
# Set the labelsplt.yticks(y_pos, labels)plt.show()
This gives us the following:
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Official Matplotlib Documentation
https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.barh.html
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