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Bar charts

kind='bar'.

df.plot(..., kind="bar").

Goal

Draw this kind four ways.

df = pd.DataFrame({
    "city": ["Nairobi", "Mombasa", "Kisumu", "Nakuru", "Eldoret"],
    "units": [21, 15, 15, 18, 12],
    "shillings": [2100, 1500, 1480, 1750, 1190],
})
df.plot(x="city", y="units", kind="bar")
plt.title("bar")
plt.show()
df = pd.DataFrame({
    "city": ["Nairobi", "Mombasa", "Kisumu", "Nakuru", "Eldoret"],
    "units": [21, 15, 15, 18, 12],
    "shillings": [2100, 1500, 1480, 1750, 1190],
})
df.plot(x="city", y="units", kind="bar", color="#1d4f7a")
plt.title("styled")
plt.show()
df = pd.DataFrame({
    "city": ["Nairobi", "Mombasa", "Kisumu", "Nakuru", "Eldoret"],
    "units": [21, 15, 15, 18, 12],
    "shillings": [2100, 1500, 1480, 1750, 1190],
})
print(df.head())
df.plot(x="city", y="shillings", kind="bar")
plt.show()
print("kind=bar")