Bars¶

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Title: Bars Element¶

Dependencies: Matplotlib

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import numpy as np
import holoviews as hv
hv.extension('matplotlib')

The Bars Element uses bars to show discrete, numerical comparisons across categories. One axis of the chart shows the specific categories being compared and the other axis represents a continuous value.

Bars may also be grouped or stacked by supplying a second key dimension representing sub-categories. Therefore the Bars Element expects a tabular data format with one or two key dimensions (kdims) and one or more value dimensions (vdims). See the Tabular Datasets user guide for supported data formats, which include arrays, pandas dataframes and dictionaries of arrays.

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data = [('one',8),('two', 10), ('three', 16), ('four', 8), ('five', 4), ('six', 1)]

bars = hv.Bars(data, hv.Dimension('Car occupants'), 'Count')

bars

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A Bars element can be sliced and selecting on like any other element:

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bars[['one', 'two', 'three']] + bars[['four', 'five', 'six']]

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It is possible to define an explicit ordering for a set of Bars by explicit declaring Dimension.values either in the Dimension constructor or using the .redim.values() approach:

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occupants = hv.Dimension('Car occupants', values=['three', 'two', 'four', 'one', 'five', 'six'])

# or using .redim.values(**{'Car Occupants': ['three', 'two', 'four', 'one', 'five', 'six']})

hv.Bars(data, occupants, 'Count')

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Bars support nested categorical groupings, e.g. here we will create a random sample of pets sub-divided by male and female:

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samples = 100

pets = ['Cat', 'Dog', 'Hamster', 'Rabbit']
genders = ['Female', 'Male']

pets_sample = np.random.choice(pets, samples)
gender_sample = np.random.choice(genders, samples)

bars = hv.Bars((pets_sample, gender_sample, np.ones(samples)), ['Pets', 'Gender']).aggregate(function=np.sum)

bars.opts(fig_size=300, aspect=2)

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Just as before we can provide an explicit ordering by declaring the Dimension.values. Alternatively we can also make use of the .sort method, internally Bars will use topological sorting to ensure consistent ordering.

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(bars.redim.values(Pets=pets, Gender=genders) + bars.sort()).opts(fig_size=300)

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To drop the second level of tick labels we can set multi_level=False, which will indicate the groupings using a legend instead:

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(bars.sort() + bars.clone().opts(multi_level=False)).opts(fig_size=300)

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Lastly, Bars can be also be stacked by setting stacked=True:

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bars.opts(stacked=True)

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For full documentation and the available style and plot options, use hv.help(hv.Bars).

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