how to assign names to each bar of a bar chart

Hello, Suppose i have some data that i want to plot in a bar chart. How do i assign labels to each of the bars. e.g.

somedata=randn(1,3)
somenames={'mike'; 'steve'; 'alex' }
barh(somedata)

My question is, how do i label each of the bars to the extreme left with the names.

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

[C.J. Harris]

You can simply add the names as the y-tick labels.

somedata=randn(1,3);
somenames={'mike'; 'steve'; 'alex' };
barh(somedata)
set(gca,'yticklabel',somenames)

[emjey]

But that doens't work if you have more than 20-30 data records :(

In such case Matlab plots the first few labels only...

Answer 2

[ORUGANTI SIVAMURALIKRISHNA]

Use like this

X = categorical({'Small','Medium','Large','Extra Large'});

Y = [0 15 20 25];

bar(X,Y)

[Bill Tubbs]

Is there a reason why it sorts the data along the x-axis in alphabetical order? Is there any way to preserve the order?

[ZenithWoman]

To preserve the order write

Write like this

X = categorical({'Small','Medium','Large','Extra Large'});
X = reordercats(X,{'Small','Medium','Large','Extra Large'});
Y = [0 15 20 25];
bar(X,Y)

I hope this helps

Answer 3

[Sarul Gupta]

Thanks :)