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python - How to determine the order of bars in a matplotlib bar chart

Suppose we read some data into a pandas data frame:

data1 = pd.read_csv("data.csv", "")

The content looks like this:

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And then define a function which should give us a horizontal bar chart, where the bar lengths represent values and the bars are labelled with the keys.

def barchart(data, labels):
    pos = arange(len(data))+.5    # the bar centers on the y axis
    barh(pos, data, align='center', height=0.25)
    yticks(pos, labels)

Then we call the plot function like this:

barchart(data1["val"], data1["key"])

which gives us the following plot:

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Now, what determines the order of the bars?

Suppose we want the bars in a special order, say [C, A, D, F, E, B], how can we enforce this?

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If you directly read the key as the index with

In [12]: df = pd.read_csv('data.csv', '', index_col='key')

In [13]: df
Out[13]: 
     val
key     
A    0.1
B    0.4
C    0.3
D    0.5
E    0.2

you can use ix to get the index in a different order and plot it using df.plot:

In [14]: df.ix[list('CADFEB')].plot(kind='barh')
Out[14]: <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x530fa90>

barh_example.png

(Note that F is not given in the data, but you gave it as an example)


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