Rotation labels matplotlib

Question

I have data

used_at                2014      2015
address                                                                                                  
auto.ru             9122342   6923367
am.ru                413071    183402
avito.ru           84503151  87688571
avtomarket.ru        106849     95927
cars.mail.ru/sale    211456    167278

and i need to print graph with rotation
address . I print

ax = graph_by_duration.plot.bar(width=0.5, ax=axes[0])
ax.set_xticklabels(graph_by_duration, rotation=40)

but it doesn't work. How can I do it?

Possible duplicate of [Rotate axis text in python matplotlib](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10998621/rotate-axis-text-in-python-matplotlib) — Fabio Lamanna, Mar 19 '16 at 22:05
If you want to ask a new question **go ask a new question**. Do not completely change your question and uncheck the accepted answer. — Suever, Apr 13 '16 at 11:27

Suever · Answer 1 · 2016-04-13T13:00:14.550

The reason that this is failing is because set_xticklabels expects a list of strings as it's first input and you are passing a DataFrame. One option is to call plt.xticks() prior to plotting.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.xticks(rotation=40)
ax = graph_by_duration.plot.bar(width=0.5, ax=axes[0])

The other option is to set the rotation on the existing labels by first fetching all labels.

for label in ax.get_xticklabels():
    label.set_rotation(40)

Rotation labels matplotlib

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