How to make matplotlib/pandas bar chart look like hist chart?

Question

Plotting Differences between bar and hist

Given some data in a pandas.Series , rv, there is a difference between

Answer 1

Another, simpler solution is to create fake samples that reproduce the same histogram and then simply use hist().

I.e., after retrieving bins and counts from stored data, do

fake = np.array([])
for i in range(len(counts)):
    a, b = bins[i], bins[i+1]
    sample = a + (b-a)*np.random.rand(counts[i])
    fake = np.append(fake, sample)

plt.hist(fake, bins=bins)