# Tutorial. MAKE BETTER, PRETTIER BAR GRAPHS. [ Word Count: 700, ~ 3 PAGES | Revised: 2019.9.4 ]steemCreated with Sketch.

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# BLOG

Today sharing:

Some code that I thought it worth sharing.

It draws what (I think) are pleasing bar graphs.

Just realized that most people here don't know you can whip out a bar graph to put somewhere without leaving the browser...

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## HOW TO USE

To use you can install LaTeX. Or you can use Overleaf.com, for example, if you don't want to install anything; both will produce a pdf document.

Many people find using LaTeX difficult, but to grok it well, you merely need some better examples.

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## CODE

% IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL LaTeX AND USE IT TO COMPILE SUCH CODE YOU CAN MAKE A FEW CHANGES TO THIS CODE AS DESCRIBED BELOW AND USE OVERLEAF.COM TO COMPILE A FILE.PDF
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,onecolumn,openright]{article} % OR ELSE INSTEAD SET
% OR ELSE INSTEAD SET \documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor,pgfplots,tikz}
% AND THEN ALSO WRITE \pgfplotsset{compat=1.14}
% AND THEN ALSO WRITE \usepackage[english]{babel}\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\definecolor{b1}{HTML}{4F84BD}
\definecolor{r1}{HTML}{C0504D}
\definecolor{g1}{HTML}{8DBB79}
\definecolor{p1}{HTML}{9F4C7C}

\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
width  = 1.2*\textwidth,
height = 8cm,
major x tick style = transparent,
ybar=2*\pgflinewidth,
bar width=14pt,
ymajorgrids = true,
ylabel = {\fontsize{8}{12}\selectfont P\,E\,R 100 S\,E\,T\,S (\,256 O\,B\,J\,E\,C\,T\,S)},
symbolic x coords={Q\,U\,A\,N\,T\,I\,T\,Y,V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS X\,),V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS Y\,)},
xtick = data,
scaled y ticks = false,
enlarge x limits=0.25,
ymin=0,
legend cell align=left,
legend style={
at={(1,1.05)},
anchor=south east,
column sep=1ex
}
]
coordinates {%
(Q\,U\,A\,N\,T\,I\,T\,Y,343)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS X\,),13.72)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS Y\,),17.97)};

coordinates {%
(Q\,U\,A\,N\,T\,I\,T\,Y,124)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS X\,),27.28)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS Y\,),37.73)
};

coordinates {%
(Q\,U\,A\,N\,T\,I\,T\,Y,28)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS X\,),12.65)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS Y\,),16.50)
};

coordinates {%
(Q\,U\,A\,N\,T\,I\,T\,Y,5)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS X\,),50)
(V\,A\,L\,U\,E\,(\,UNITS Y\,),65.5)
};

\legend{%
\textbf{Shorter}\,. . . . . . . .\hspace{1mm}0.04 UNITS,
\textbf{Abcd}\,. . . . . . . . .\hspace{2mm}0.22 UNITS,
\textbf{Efgh}\,. . . . . . . . .\hspace{3mm}0.45 UNITS,
\textbf{Looonger}\,. . . . . .\hspace{2mm}10.0 UNITS%
}
\end{axis}\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}


Pretty easy, what do you think?

I'm a scientist who writes science fiction under various names.

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