plot bar chart with pandas code example

Example 1: plotting a bar chart with pandas

df = pd.DataFrame({'lab':['A', 'B', 'C'], 'val':[10, 30, 20]})
ax = df.plot.bar(x='lab', y='val', rot=0)

Example 2: bar chart in python

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt; plt.rcdefaults()import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltobjects = ('Python', 'C++', 'Java', 'Perl', 'Scala', 'Lisp')y_pos = np.arange(len(objects))performance = [10,8,6,4,2,1]plt.bar(y_pos, performance, align='center', alpha=0.5)plt.xticks(y_pos, objects)plt.ylabel('Usage')plt.title('Programming language usage')plt.show()