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Horizontal bar chart from right to left in matplotlib

The example code provided here generates this plot:

I want to know if it is possible to plot the exact same thing but "mirrored", like this:

Here is the sample code provided just in case the link stops working:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)


plt.rcdefaults()
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

# Example data
people = ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Slim', 'Jim')
y_pos = np.arange(len(people))
performance = 3 + 10 * np.random.rand(len(people))
error = np.random.rand(len(people))

ax.barh(y_pos, performance, xerr=error, align='center',
color='green', ecolor='black')
ax.set_yticks(y_pos)
ax.set_yticklabels(people)
ax.invert_yaxis() # labels read top-to-bottom
ax.set_xlabel('Performance')
ax.set_title('How fast do you want to go today?')

plt.show()


-performance

xticks

1 Answer
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You need to first create a twin-x axis (Right hand side y-axis) instance (here ax1) and then plot the bars on that. You can hide the left-hand side y-axis ticks and labels by passing . Rest of the code remains the same except that now you use ax1 instead of ax. You can name ax1 as you want.

ax1

ax1

ax

ax1

Solution 1

ax.set_yticklabels() # Hide the left y-axis tick-labels
ax.set_yticks() # Hide the left y-axis ticks
ax1 = ax.twinx() # Create a twin x-axis
ax1.barh(y_pos, performance, xerr=error, align='center',
color='green', ecolor='black') # Plot using `ax1` instead of `ax`


Solution 2 (same output):

ax.invert_yaxis() # labels read top-to-bottom
ax.invert_xaxis() # labels read top-to-bottom

ax2 = ax.twinx()
ax2.set_ylim(ax.get_ylim())
ax2.set_yticks(y_pos)
ax2.set_yticklabels(people)


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