Question

I am looking for a plot that is rotated 90 degree in clockwise directions. An similar example of such plot is “hist(x, orientation=’horizontal’)”. Is there any way to achieve similar orientation.

#Make horizontal plots.
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = random.sample(range(1000), 100)
x
plt.plot(x) #orientation='horizontal'
plt.show()

Answer 1

plt.plot(x) plots your x values automatically against the y-axis. In order to get a rotated plot you have to plot your x values against the x axis. So you’ll need a to make vector for the y-axis, which has the same length as your sample.

import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x=random.sample(1000)
y=np.arange(1000)
plt.plot(x,y)

Using plt.plot(x), matplotlib takes your x-values as its y-values and generates a vector for the x axis automatically.