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coding sucks, i try to google a basic thing and its like 'here's a billion nearby things that arent quite right, if only you had slightly more knowledge about programming so you could modify my example to be what you need, but you don't so you're screwed'

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all i wanna fucking do is figure out how to generate a stupid basic bar chart off my stupid dataframe using my index names as labels for the X axis and numbers in another column for height on the Y axis, this is extremely simple why do i wanna kms

9:57 PM · Aug 29, 2022

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i dont think i can adequately express the level of frustration i have rn, coding is stupid and everyone trying to explain coding to each other is stupid

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@Aella_Girl

Aug 29, 2022

oh thank god someone in a chat finally gave me code that worked, i wanna cry

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@danielndoc

Aug 29, 2022

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@Aella_Girl

what language? pretty sure most have libraries for this lol

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python, ive been trying matplotlib and seaborn

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import seaborn as sns ax = sns.barplot(x="category", y="metric", data=df)

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x needs to be index, how do i refer to index

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This is why stuff ends up being done in Excel, even if it shouldn't. Because it's easy.

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get github copilot

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@materilfo

Aug 29, 2022

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With the size of your datasets not being in the millions, but thousands at most, maybe excel or spss would be the most productive thing for you in the end vs python data science tools.