from collections import Counter from matplotlib import pyplot as plt num_friends = [100, 49, 41, 40, 25, 21, 21, 19, 19, 18, 18, 16, 15, 15, 15, 15, 14, 14, 13, 13, 13, 13, 12, 12, 11, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] friend_counts = Counter(num_friends) xs = range(101) # largest value is just 100 ys = [friend_counts[x] for x in xs] # Height is just number of friends plt.bar(xs, ys) plt.axis([0, 101, 0, 25]) plt.title('Histogram of friend counts') plt.xlabel('# of Friends') plt.ylabel('# of People') if __name__ == "__main__": plt.show()