.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/categorical_variables.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. 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_categorical_variables.py: ============================== Plotting categorical variables ============================== How to use categorical variables in Matplotlib. Many times you want to create a plot that uses categorical variables in Matplotlib. Matplotlib allows you to pass categorical variables directly to many plotting functions, which we demonstrate below. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 12-25 .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt data = {'apple': 10, 'orange': 15, 'lemon': 5, 'lime': 20} names = list(data.keys()) values = list(data.values()) fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(9, 3), sharey=True) axs[0].bar(names, values) axs[1].scatter(names, values) axs[2].plot(names, values) fig.suptitle('Categorical Plotting') .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_categorical_variables_001.png :alt: Categorical Plotting :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none Text(0.5, 0.98, 'Categorical Plotting') .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 26-27 This works on both axes: .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 27-38 .. code-block:: default cat = ["bored", "happy", "bored", "bored", "happy", "bored"] dog = ["happy", "happy", "happy", "happy", "bored", "bored"] activity = ["combing", "drinking", "feeding", "napping", "playing", "washing"] fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(activity, dog, label="dog") ax.plot(activity, cat, label="cat") ax.legend() plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_categorical_variables_002.png :alt: categorical variables :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_categorical_variables.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: categorical_variables.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: categorical_variables.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_