How can I draw bar graph from the data in matlab?

I want to draw a bar graph in MATLAB that represent players versus years won. For instance,

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Country         Years won
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US           2002, 2005
Canada        2012, 2013
Belgium      2003, 2004,2011, 2017
Hungary      2001,  2015, 2016

How can I draw the bar of this data values in MATLAB? I was wondering if someone could help me?

[user1234]

I would like to know the problem of the following codes to generate the bar graphs. Moreover, I need the years to appear on the graph. Anyone help. Thanks.

Names = {'US','Canada','Belgium','Hungary'};
YearsWon = {[2002, 2005],[2012, 2013],...
    [2003, 2004,2011, 2017],[2001, 2015, 2016]};
 set(gca, 'YTickLabel', Names,...
    'XTick',2001:2017);
 xlabel('Years Won');ylabel('Country Name')

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Hailemariam - this seems like homework, so take a look at the Create Bar Graph with Categorical Data example from MATLAB bar graph. Presumably you will want you x-axis to have labels using each of the four countries from above. This example will show you how to do that.

[user1234]

@Geoff Hayes... Frankly, it is not homework. I am doing my own simulation. I tried it many times, but I couldn't manage the error.

[Geoff Hayes]

Hailemariam - how do you want your bar graph to look? Do the country names appear on the x-axis or the y-axis? Does the bar measure how many games each country has won? Where do you want the years to appear in the graph? Perhaps you will realize that a bar graph is not necessarily what you want to show.

Also, how do three countries win in the same year (eg. 2013)? Are they all playing in different tournaments or just one in which case there shouldn't be duplicates?

[user1234]

@@Geoff Hayes. Thank you! I editted the data. The years must be different. I want the years to appear on the x-axis. I want only the years versus country on the bar to be displayed.

[Geoff Hayes]

But how does the bar "work" for the US as they didn't win in 2003 and 2004? Or are you looking more for a way to fill in the spaces (along the axes) that correspond to wins for the country?

If the latter, then you can try something like

Names = {'US','Canada','Belgium','Hungary'};
YearsWon = {[2002, 2005],[2012, 2013],...
    [2003, 2004,2011, 2017],[2001, 2015, 2016]};
set(gca, 'YTick',1:4,'YTickLabel', Names, 'XTick',2001:2017);
ylim(gca,[0 5]);
xlim(gca,[2000 2018]);

hold on;
countryColours = {'r', 'b', 'g', 'm'};
for u=1:length(Names)
   countryWins = YearsWon{u};
   for v=1:length(countryWins)
      winYear = countryWins(v);
      fill([winYear winYear+1 winYear+1 winYear], ...
           [u u u+1 u+1],countryColours{u});
   end
end
axis(gca, 'image');

In the above, we loop through all of the countries and use fill to create a square for the country at the win year (a different colour is used for each country).

[user1234]

Thank you very much!