How to display the value of the bar on each bar with pyplot.barh()?
Update: there's a built in method for this now! Scroll down a couple answers to "New in matplotlib 3.4.0".
If you can't upgrade that far, it doesn't take much code. Add:
for i, v in enumerate(y):
ax.text(v + 3, i + .25, str(v), color='blue', fontweight='bold')
result:
The y-values v
are both the x-location and the string values for ax.text
, and conveniently the barplot has a metric of 1 for each bar, so the enumeration i
is the y-location.
I have noticed api example code contains an example of barchart with the value of the bar displayed on each bar:
"""
========
Barchart
========
A bar plot with errorbars and height labels on individual bars
"""
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
N = 5
men_means = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
men_std = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)
ind = np.arange(N) # the x locations for the groups
width = 0.35 # the width of the bars
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
rects1 = ax.bar(ind, men_means, width, color='r', yerr=men_std)
women_means = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
women_std = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
rects2 = ax.bar(ind + width, women_means, width, color='y', yerr=women_std)
# add some text for labels, title and axes ticks
ax.set_ylabel('Scores')
ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender')
ax.set_xticks(ind + width / 2)
ax.set_xticklabels(('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'))
ax.legend((rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('Men', 'Women'))
def autolabel(rects):
"""
Attach a text label above each bar displaying its height
"""
for rect in rects:
height = rect.get_height()
ax.text(rect.get_x() + rect.get_width()/2., 1.05*height,
'%d' % int(height),
ha='center', va='bottom')
autolabel(rects1)
autolabel(rects2)
plt.show()
output:
FYI What is the unit of height variable in "barh" of matplotlib? (as of now, there is no easy way to set a fixed height for each bar)
New in matplotlib 3.4.0
There is now a built-in Axes.bar_label
helper method to auto-label bars:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
bars = ax.barh(indexes, values)
ax.bar_label(bars)
Note that for grouped/stacked bar plots, there will multiple bar containers, which can all be accessed via ax.containers
:
for bars in ax.containers:
ax.bar_label(bars)
More details:
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