.. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_barchart.py: ============================= Grouped bar chart with labels ============================= This example shows a how to create a grouped bar chart and how to annotate bars with labels. .. code-block:: default import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np labels = ['G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'] men_means = [20, 34, 30, 35, 27] women_means = [25, 32, 34, 20, 25] x = np.arange(len(labels)) # the label locations width = 0.35 # the width of the bars fig, ax = plt.subplots() rects1 = ax.bar(x - width/2, men_means, width, label='Men') rects2 = ax.bar(x + width/2, women_means, width, label='Women') # Add some text for labels, title and custom x-axis tick labels, etc. ax.set_ylabel('Scores') ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender') ax.set_xticks(x) ax.set_xticklabels(labels) ax.legend() def autolabel(rects): """Attach a text label above each bar in *rects*, displaying its height.""" for rect in rects: height = rect.get_height() ax.annotate('{}'.format(height), xy=(rect.get_x() + rect.get_width() / 2, height), xytext=(0, 3), # 3 points vertical offset textcoords="offset points", ha='center', va='bottom') autolabel(rects1) autolabel(rects2) fig.tight_layout() plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_barchart_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods and classes is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar matplotlib.pyplot.bar matplotlib.axes.Axes.annotate matplotlib.pyplot.annotate .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_barchart.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: barchart.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: barchart.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_