.. 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_bar_stacked.py: ================= Stacked bar chart ================= This is an example of creating a stacked bar plot with error bars using `~matplotlib.pyplot.bar`. Note the parameters *yerr* used for error bars, and *bottom* to stack the women's bars on top of the men's bars. .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_bar_stacked_001.png :alt: Scores by group and gender :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt labels = ['G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'] men_means = [20, 35, 30, 35, 27] women_means = [25, 32, 34, 20, 25] men_std = [2, 3, 4, 1, 2] women_std = [3, 5, 2, 3, 3] width = 0.35 # the width of the bars: can also be len(x) sequence fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.bar(labels, men_means, width, yerr=men_std, label='Men') ax.bar(labels, women_means, width, yerr=women_std, bottom=men_means, label='Women') ax.set_ylabel('Scores') ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender') ax.legend() plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_bar_stacked.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: bar_stacked.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: bar_stacked.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_