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# Horizontal bar chart

This example showcases a simple horizontal bar chart.

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    plt.rcdefaults()
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    # Example data
    people = ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Slim', 'Jim')
    y_pos = np.arange(len(people))
    performance = 3 + 10 * np.random.rand(len(people))
    error = np.random.rand(len(people))

    ax.barh(y_pos, performance, xerr=error, align='center',
            color='green', ecolor='black')
    ax.set_yticks(y_pos)
    ax.set_yticklabels(people)
    ax.invert_yaxis()  # labels read top-to-bottom
    ax.set_xlabel('Performance')
    ax.set_title('How fast do you want to go today?')

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.045 seconds)

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