Hi
In practicing drawing stacked bars with matplot I get an annoying white space (vertically) in all my charts HERE is an example . What can b e the solution?
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This link leads to the exercise, we are not able to see your code and your output. May I ask you to post your code and screenshot of the result?
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Hello there, many thanks for your help here is my code :
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
unit_topics = ['Limits', 'Derivatives', 'Integrals', 'Diff Eq', 'Applications']
As = [6, 3, 4, 3, 5]
Bs = [8, 12, 8, 9, 10]
Cs = [13, 12, 15, 13, 14]
Ds = [2, 3, 3, 2, 1]
Fs = [1, 0, 0, 3, 0]
x = range(5)
plt.figure(figsize = (10,8))
#create d_bottom and f_bottom here
c_bottom = np.add(As, Bs)
d_bottom = np.add(c_bottom, Cs)
f_bottom = np.add(d_bottom, Ds)
#create your plot here
plt.bar (x, As)
plt.bar (x, Bs, bottom = Bs)
plt.bar (x, Cs, bottom = c_bottom)
plt.bar (x, Ds, bottom = d_bottom)
plt.bar (x, Fs, bottom = f_bottom)
ax =plt.subplot()
ax.set_xticks(range(len(unit_topics)))
ax.set_xticklabels(unit_topics)
plt.ylabel("Number of Students")
plt.xlabel("Unit")
plt.title("Grade distribution")
plt.savefig("my_stacked_bar.png")
plt.show()
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This is the result of your code:
Take a look at these two lines from your code:
plt.bar (x, As)
plt.bar (x, Bs, bottom = Bs)
So the first line creates a new set of bars, with heights from the list As. These are the blue bars in your plot.
But in the second line, you create a new set of bars (orange bars in the plot) with heights defined in the list Bs and with bottom set to the list Bs. This means that each bar i will have height Bs[i] and will be drawn starting at y coordinate = Bs[i].
And this is not what you should have done. You want to draw every next set of bars on the top of the previous set. So the y baseline (bottom) should be set to the sum of heights of each previous set of bars. So for the second set of bars you want to set bottom = As.
plt.bar(x, As)
plt.bar(x, Bs, bottom = As)
plt.bar(x, Cs, bottom = c_bottom)
plt.bar(x, Ds, bottom = d_bottom)
plt.bar(x, Fs, bottom = f_bottom)
If my explanation is a bit messy - sorry, here is another example. Let’s take a look at how you draw the third set of bars:
c_bottom = np.add(As, Bs)
plt.bar(x, Cs, bottom = c_bottom)
In the first line, you calculated the sum of the height of corresponding bars from the set As and Bs. And then you draw the new set of bars - Cs specifying that they should be drawn at y coordinates equal to the calculated sum.
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Understood, thanks a lot for your help
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You’re very welcome!
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