Plot a histogram using the index as x-axis labels

Question

I have the following dataframe in python

  Sex  Survived
0  female  0.742038
1    male  0.188908

i would like to plot a histogram, where ma

Answer 1

You don't want to plot a histogram, as your data is already histogrammed. Instead you want to plot a simple bar plot.

import io
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

u = u"""Sex Survived
female 0.742038
male 0.188908"""

df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(u), delim_whitespace=True)

df.plot.bar(x="Sex", y="Survived")

plt.show()

Answer 2

In my opinion you need DataFrame.plot.bar:

df.plot.bar(x='Sex', y='Survived')

because histogram plot distribution of numerical data.