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Bar plot advancedΒΆ
An more elaborate bar plot example
![plot bar ext](../../../../_images/sphx_glr_plot_bar_ext_001.png)
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
n = 16
X = np.arange(n)
Y1 = (1 - X / float(n)) * np.random.uniform(0.5, 1.0, n)
Y2 = (1 - X / float(n)) * np.random.uniform(0.5, 1.0, n)
plt.bar(X, Y1, facecolor="#9999ff", edgecolor="white")
plt.bar(X, -Y2, facecolor="#ff9999", edgecolor="white")
plt.xlim(-0.5, n)
plt.xticks([])
plt.ylim(-1, 1)
plt.yticks([])
# Add a title and a box around it
from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch
ax = plt.gca()
ax.add_patch(
FancyBboxPatch(
(-0.05, 0.87),
width=0.66,
height=0.165,
clip_on=False,
boxstyle="square,pad=0",
zorder=3,
facecolor="white",
alpha=1.0,
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
)
plt.text(
-0.05,
1.02,
" Bar Plot: plt.bar(...)\n",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="xx-large",
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
plt.text(
-0.05,
1.01,
"\n\n Make a bar plot with rectangles ",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="large",
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.043 seconds)