Beautiful Bars: Scaled Gradient Fill on Bar Plots

Using color to add meaning to your plots in matplotlib

Bar plots are one of the most basic and useful ways to convey data to our audience. While there are more exciting plots like box plots, violin plots, and heat-maps, no plot is as universally understood by non-technical audiences like the bar plot.

On the flip-side, bar plots really are boring. They’re also very simplistic in that they don’t give the audience any …

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