As an exercise, I\'m reproducing a plot from The Economist with matplotlib
So far, I can generate a random data and produce two plots independently. I\'m struggling now
You should try using subplots. First you create a figure by plt.figure()
. Then add one subplot(121)
where 1 is number of rows, 2 is number of columns and last 1 is your first plot. Then you plot the first dataframe, note that you should use the created axis ax1
. Then add the second subplot(122)
and repeat for the second dataframe. I changed your axis ax2
to ax3
since now you have three axis on one figure. The code below produces what I believe you are looking for. You can then work on aesthetics of each plot separately.
%matplotlib inline
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
fig = plt.figure()
df1 = pd.DataFrame({"broadcast": np.random.randint(110, 150,size=8),
"cable": np.random.randint(100, 250, size=8),
"streaming" : np.random.randint(10, 50, size=8)},
index=pd.Series(np.arange(2009,2017),name='year'))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121)
df1.plot.bar(stacked=True,ax=ax1)
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'usage': np.sort(np.random.randint(1,50,size=7)),
'avg_hour': np.sort(np.random.randint(0,3, size=7) + np.random.ranf(size=7))},
index=pd.Series(np.arange(2009,2016),name='year'))
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(122)
ax2.plot(df2['avg_hour'])
ax3 = ax2.twinx()
ax3.bar(left=range(2009,2016),height=df2['usage'])
plt.show()