Edit the width of bars using dataframe.plot() function in matplotlib

Question

I am making a stacked bar plot using:

DataFrame.plot(kind='bar',stacked=True) 

I want to control width of bars so that the bars are connected to each other like a histogram.

I've looked through the documentation but to no avail - any suggestions? Is it possible to do it this way?

Answer 1

For anyone coming across this question:

Since pandas 0.14, plotting with bars has a 'width' command: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/6644

The example above can now be solved simply by using

df.plot(kind='bar', stacked=True, width=1) 

See pandas.DataFrame.plot.bar or pandas.DataFrame.plot with kind='bar'.

When changing the width of the bars, it might also be appropriate to change the figure size by specifying the figsize= parameter.