My dataset is called df:

I want to create a histogram in seaborn with french and flemish on the x-axis and year as the hue.

I tried this, but it didn't work successfully:

sns.histplot(data=df, x="french", hue="year", multiple="dodge", shrink=.8)

The y-axis should show the height of the number of the columns of french and flemish.

CodePudding user response：

1. You need to use a bar function, not a histogram function. Histogram functions take raw data and count them, but your data are already counted.
2. You need to

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   The melted dataframe for reference:

   >>> df.melt("year", var_name="language", value_name="count")
   
   #    year  language  count
   # 0  2014    french    200
   # 1  2015    french    170
   # 2  2016    french    130
   # 3  2017    french    120
   # 4  2018    french    210
   # 5  2014   flemish    200
   # 6  2015   flemish    210
   # 7  2016   flemish    220
   # 8  2017   flemish    225
   # 9  2018   flemish    250