Matplotlib - Bar Chart

Matplotlib - Bar Chart

To draw a Bar chart using Matplotlib, use bar() function of maplotlib.pyplot package.

Example

In the following example, we draw the price chart of XY stock with time.

Python Program

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = [2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016]
height = [5.6, 7, 2.5, 4, 3.8, 6.1]

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.bar(x, height)

ax.set_xlabel('Time')
ax.set_ylabel('Price')
ax.set_title('XY Stock')

plt.show()

Output

Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to draw a Bar Chart using Matplotlib.