How to display Chinese in pandas plot?

Question

Here, I have a plot work to do with pandas, like this :

most_active_posts.plot(x = \'title\',y = \'active_span\',kind = \'barh\')

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Answer 1

I think you want the characters to be the labels on the plot right?

I just grabbed some random characters:

In [40]: df
Out[40]: 
   0 title
0  0     뉵
1  1     뉑
2  2     늘
3  3     度

[4 rows x 2 columns]

I don't think there is a way to set y_ticklabels from df.plot(), but you can set them from the returned axes object:

In [47]: ax = df.plot(kind='barh')

In [48]: ax.set_yticklabels(df['title'].str.decode('utf-8'))
Out[48]: 
[,
 ,
 ,
 ]

In [49]: plt.draw()

Here's the figure:

I'm not actually able to save the file and have the characters show up. Not sure why at the moment, but this may get you started.