Aren't the values supposed to sum up for each bar?

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I was expecting for example the F bar to have 8+9=17 and not only 9 (the last value for F).

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'D', 'D', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'F']
y = [ 5  , 8  , 7,   9,   9,   2,   7,   8,   8,   9 ]

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.bar(x, y)

plt.show();

Can someone explain the logic please ?

Asked By: VERBOSE

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Answer 1

No, it’s normal, the bars are superimposed. See for example changing the opacity:

ax.bar(x, y, alpha=0.1)

You can use pandas to group the values:

pd.Series(y).groupby(x).sum().plot.bar()

Output:

Or in pure python:

out = {}
for X, Y in zip(x, y):
    out[X] = out.get(X, 0) + Y

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.bar(*zip(*out.items()))

Answered By: mozway

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