Plot absolute values in stacked bar plot
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Dear all,
I am creating a stacked bar plot showing ABSOLUTE values (see figure attached).
I am wondering how I can plot the absolute, not the relative numbers, on the seperate bar segments (as depicted by white numbers on the attached plot).
Thank you and all the best,
Lisa
2 Comments
Dyuman Joshi
on 17 Jan 2023
Please attach your data or give a sample data.
Lisa Rosenblum
on 18 Jan 2023
Answers (1)
x = [15 40 22; 6 13 4];
b = bar(x,'stacked','FaceColor','flat');
ylim([0 100])
legend({'1','2','3'});
ylabel('%')
xticklabels({'Yes', 'No'})
a = get(gca,'XTickLabel');
set(gca,'XTickLabel',a,'fontsize',16)
%defining x and y coordinates and labels
xt = [1 2 1 2 1 2];
yt = reshape(cumsum(x,2),1,[])-2;
label = reshape(x,1,[]);
text(xt,yt,string(label),'HorizontalAlignment','center','FontSize',7,'Color','k')
%white didn't look good
legend boxoff
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Elli
on 18 Jan 2023
Great, that works perfect! Thanks!
Which part would need to be adjusted if working with more than two bars? For example with an input variable such as
x = [15 40 22; 6 13 4; 17 30 5];
@Elli, that would be like this -
x = [15 40 22; 6 13 4; 17 30 5];
b = bar(x,'stacked','FaceColor','flat');
ylim([0 100])
legend({'1','2','3'});
ylabel('%')
xticklabels({'Yes', 'No'})
a = get(gca,'XTickLabel');
set(gca,'XTickLabel',a,'fontsize',16)
%defining x and y coordinates and labels
%part adjusted
%you can verify the code by using any numbers of rows in your data
r = size(x,1);
xt = repmat([1:r],1, r);
yt = reshape(cumsum(x,2),1,[])-2;
label = reshape(x,1,[]);
text(xt,yt,string(label),'HorizontalAlignment','center','FontSize',7,'Color','k')
%white didn't look good
legend boxoff
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