How to change bar positions using matplotlib.pyplot.barh

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I'm plotting a horizontal barplot using matplotlib.pyplot.barh, and want to move the bar positions. I didn't find any argument that supports this. Anyone had the same problem?

ax1.set_title('Number of Accounts', size=12)
ax1.invert_yaxis()
ax1.invert_xaxis()
ax1.barh(c['Customer Group'], c['n_accts'],color='#f4be92')

Right now the bar for 1 is in between 0 and 1, and the one for 2 is in between 1 and 2. Is there a way to move the bars to where their corresponding numbers are?

I suppose it depends on what c['Customer Group'] is and how you produced the labels. Both is not shown in the question. See minimal reproducible example. — ImportanceOfBeingErnest
– ImportanceOfBeingErnest, Commented Jan 10, 2019 at 20:31

Sheldore · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-10 19:23:28Z

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You should use a centered alignment. To do so, you can use pass align='center' as an argument to your ax.barh. So just use

ax1.barh(c['Customer Group'], c['n_accts'],color='#f4be92', align='center')

It will center the bars on the y axis. See the docs here.

answered Jan 10, 2019 at 19:23

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tgiddft88 Over a year ago

Thank you so much! so the default value for the align argument is 'center', so passing 'center' didn't make a difference, but passing align='edge' worked!

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