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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Suggesting new feature: autolabel option for bar plots","articleBody":"Whenever I plot some form of bar plot I find myself thinking that it would be nice to have the bars labelled with the actual value counts (or a percentage value). Examples are given in the [barplot gallery](https://github.com/rasbt/matplotlib-gallery#boxplots-and-violinplots): \r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3758223/46420899-f6d5ce00-c6fe-11e8-83a1-1b89c6815569.png)\r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3758223/46421462-1e796600-c700-11e8-9958-217a92666120.png)\r\n\r\nThis is the code that makes it happen: \r\n\r\n``` \r\n# label bars\r\ndef autolabel(rects):\r\n    for ii,rect in enumerate(rects):\r\n        height = rect.get_height()\r\n        plt.text(rect.get_x()+rect.get_width()/2., 1.02*height, '%s'% (mean_values[ii]),\r\n            ha='center', va='bottom')\r\nautolabel(rects)\r\n```\r\n\r\nI think this feature is so crucial that it should be part of barplot via an argument such as ``autolabel = true`` or something. What do people think? Implementing this would be relatively easy I suppose but edge cases (such as error bars) might be harder to deal with. I find myself spending quite some time adjusting the heights and axis limits to make it all fit together - automating this would be a big plus. \r\n\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ebauch","@type":"Person","name":"ebauch"},"datePublished":"2018-10-03T15:30:35.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/12386/matplotlib/issues/12386"}