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How to plot a bar graph from a pandas series?

Consider my series as below: First column is article_id and the second column is frequency count.

article_id  
1         39 
2         49 
3        187 
4        159 
5        158 
        ...  
16947     14 
16948      7 
16976      2 
16977      1 
16978      1 
16980      1 

Name: article_id, dtype: int64

I got this series from a dataframe with the following command: 

logs.loc[logs['article_id'] <= 17029].groupby('article_id')['article_id'].count()

logs is the dataframe here and article_id is one of the columns in it.

How do I plot a bar chart(using Matlplotlib) such that the article_id is on the X-axis and the frequency count on the Y-axis ?

My natural instinct was to convert it into a list using .tolist() but that doesn't preserve the article_id.

Solution

  • IIUC you need Series.plot.bar:

    #pandas 0.17.0 and above
s.plot.bar()
#pandas below 0.17.0
s.plot('bar')

    Sample:

    import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

s = pd.Series({16976: 2, 1: 39, 2: 49, 3: 187, 4: 159, 
               5: 158, 16947: 14, 16977: 1, 16948: 7, 16978: 1, 16980: 1},
               name='article_id')
print (s)
1         39
2         49
3        187
4        159
5        158
16947     14
16948      7
16976      2
16977      1
16978      1
16980      1
Name: article_id, dtype: int64


s.plot.bar()

plt.show()

    graph