Bar plot advanced

An more elaborate bar plot example

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

n = 16
X = np.arange(n)
Y1 = (1 - X / float(n)) * np.random.uniform(0.5, 1.0, n)
Y2 = (1 - X / float(n)) * np.random.uniform(0.5, 1.0, n)
plt.bar(X, Y1, facecolor='#9999ff', edgecolor='white')
plt.bar(X, -Y2, facecolor='#ff9999', edgecolor='white')
plt.xlim(-.5, n)
plt.xticks([])
plt.ylim(-1, 1)
plt.yticks([])


# Add a title and a box around it
from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch
ax = plt.gca()
ax.add_patch(FancyBboxPatch((-0.05, .87),
                            width=.66, height=.165, clip_on=False,
                            boxstyle="square,pad=0", zorder=3,
                            facecolor='white', alpha=1.0,
                            transform=plt.gca().transAxes))

plt.text(-0.05, 1.02, " Bar Plot:              plt.bar(...)\n",
      horizontalalignment='left',
      verticalalignment='top',
      size='xx-large',
      transform=plt.gca().transAxes)

plt.text(-0.05, 1.01, "\n\n   Make a bar plot with rectangles ",
      horizontalalignment='left',
      verticalalignment='top',
      size='large',
      transform=plt.gca().transAxes)

plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.034 seconds)