""" ============================================= Discrete distribution as horizontal bar chart ============================================= Stacked bar charts can be used to visualize discrete distributions. This example visualizes the result of a survey in which people could rate their agreement to questions on a five-element scale. The horizontal stacking is achieved by calling `~.Axes.barh()` for each category and passing the starting point as the cumulative sum of the already drawn bars via the parameter ``left``. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np category_names = ['Strongly disagree', 'Disagree', 'Neither agree nor disagree', 'Agree', 'Strongly agree'] results = { 'Question 1': [10, 15, 17, 32, 26], 'Question 2': [26, 22, 29, 10, 13], 'Question 3': [35, 37, 7, 2, 19], 'Question 4': [32, 11, 9, 15, 33], 'Question 5': [21, 29, 5, 5, 40], 'Question 6': [8, 19, 5, 30, 38] } def survey(results, category_names): """ Parameters ---------- results : dict A mapping from question labels to a list of answers per category. It is assumed all lists contain the same number of entries and that it matches the length of *category_names*. category_names : list of str The category labels. """ labels = list(results.keys()) data = np.array(list(results.values())) data_cum = data.cumsum(axis=1) category_colors = plt.colormaps['RdYlGn']( np.linspace(0.15, 0.85, data.shape[1])) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9.2, 5)) ax.invert_yaxis() ax.xaxis.set_visible(False) ax.set_xlim(0, np.sum(data, axis=1).max()) for i, (colname, color) in enumerate(zip(category_names, category_colors)): widths = data[:, i] starts = data_cum[:, i] - widths rects = ax.barh(labels, widths, left=starts, height=0.5, label=colname, color=color) r, g, b, _ = color text_color = 'white' if r * g * b < 0.5 else 'darkgrey' ax.bar_label(rects, label_type='center', color=text_color) ax.legend(ncols=len(category_names), bbox_to_anchor=(0, 1), loc='lower left', fontsize='small') return fig, ax survey(results, category_names) plt.show() # %% # # .. admonition:: References # # The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown # in this example: # # - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.barh` / `matplotlib.pyplot.barh` # - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar_label` / `matplotlib.pyplot.bar_label` # - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.legend` / `matplotlib.pyplot.legend` # # .. tags:: # # domain: statistics # component: label # plot-type: bar # level: beginner