Plot a histogram from a Dictionary

Question

I created a dictionary that counts the occurrences in a list of every key and I would now like to plot the histogram of its content.

This is the content of the dictionary I want to plot:

{1: 27, 34: 1, 3: 72, 4: 62, 5: 33, 6: 36, 7: 20, 8: 12, 9: 9, 10: 6, 11: 5, 12: 8, 2: 74, 14: 4, 15: 3, 16: 1, 17: 1, 18: 1, 19: 1, 21: 1, 27: 2} 

So far I wrote this:

import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  pos = np.arange(len(myDictionary.keys())) width = 1.0     # gives histogram aspect to the bar diagram  ax = plt.axes() ax.set_xticks(pos + (width / 2)) ax.set_xticklabels(myDictionary.keys())  plt.bar(myDictionary.keys(), ******, width, color='g') #                            ^^^^^^ what should I put here? plt.show() 

I tried by simply doing

plt.bar(myDictionary.keys(), myDictionary, width, color='g') 

but this is the result:

and I don't know why the 3 bars are shifted and also I'd like the histogram to be displayed in a ordered fashion.

Can somebody tell me how to do it?

Answer 1

You can use the function for plotting histograms like this:

a = np.random.random_integers(0,10,20) #example list of values plt.hist(a) plt.show() 

Or you can use myDictionary just like this:

plt.bar(myDictionary.keys(), myDictionary.values(), width, color='g') 

Answer 2

With Python 3 you need to use list(your_dict.keys()) instead of your_dict.keys() (otherwise you get TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  dictionary = {1: 27, 34: 1, 3: 72, 4: 62, 5: 33, 6: 36, 7: 20, 8: 12, 9: 9, 10: 6, 11: 5,                12: 8, 2: 74, 14: 4, 15: 3, 16: 1, 17: 1, 18: 1, 19: 1, 21: 1, 27: 2} plt.bar(list(dictionary.keys()), dictionary.values(), color='g') plt.show() 

Tested with Matplotlib 2.0.0 and python 3.5.

FYI: Plotting a python dict in order of key values