Making a figure longer in Python

Question

I have a dataframe with one column and 80 rows, and I want to visualize it as a horizontal bar chart. I use pandas plot() function like this:

df.plot(kind='barh')
plt.show()

But, because my dataframe has too many rows, the result is

How I can make the figure longer? Becasue I think if the figure becomes longer, all the row information will fit into the vertical axis.

Have you tried the previous SO question? [How to change the size of figures in Matplotlib?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/332289/how-do-you-change-the-size-of-figures-drawn-with-matplotlib) — Alex_P, Nov 12 '18 at 17:09

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '18 at 17:24

3

use figsize parameter of plot function

figsize=(length, height)

df.plot(figsize=(20,20), kind='barh')
plt.show()

answered Nov 12 '18 at 17:24

prisar

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '18 at 17:13

2

Give the figure more height:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(15,15))
ax.plot(kind='barh')
plt.show()

answered Nov 12 '18 at 17:13

yatu

2 Answers2