plot histogram in python using csv file as input

Question

I have a csv file which contains two columns where first column is fruit name and second column is count and I need to plot histogram using this csv as input to the code below. How do I make it possible. I just have to show first 20 entries where fruit names will be x axis and count will be y axis from entire csv file of 100 lines.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_csv('data.csv', header = None ,quoting=2)

data.hist(bins=10)
plt.xlim([0,100])
plt.ylim([50,500])
plt.title("Data")
plt.xlabel("fruits")
plt.ylabel("Frequency")
plt.show()

I edited the above program to plot a bar chart -

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_csv('data.csv', sep=',',header=None)
data.values
print data
plt.bar(data[:,0], data[:,1], color='g')
plt.ylabel('Frequency')
plt.xlabel('Words')
plt.title('Title')

plt.show()

but this gives me an error 'Unhashable Type '. Can anyone help on this.

Answer 1

You can use the inbuilt plot of pandas, although you need to specify the first column is index,

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_csv('data.csv', sep=',',header=None, index_col =0)

data.plot(kind='bar')
plt.ylabel('Frequency')
plt.xlabel('Words')
plt.title('Title')

plt.show()

If you need to use matplotlib, it may be easier to convert the array to a dictionary using data.to_dict() and extract the data to numpy array or something.