How can xtick labels refer to labels instead of index numbers?

Question

I have a Dataframe which I'm using to create a bar plot.

This is the code that generated the plot.

    from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
    import pandas as pd
    gendercrcard=pd.DataFrame({'Gender':['Female','Female','Male','Male'],'Hascrcard':['No','Yes','No','Yes'],'count':[1351,3192,1594,3863]})
    gendercrcard.plot(kind='bar')
    plt.title('Credit Card Status with Gender', size = 20)
    plt.xticks(size = 15, rotation = 0)
    plt.ylabel('Frequency', size = 15)
    plt.show()

My xticks currently correspond to their index in the df. However, the index number do not provide context.

Is there a way to change them so that they say 'Male/Female' and 'Credit card/No credit card'?

I'd Also like to change the colour of the boxes (e.g. male = blue and female = pink).

Please add a [minimal working example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example). — Erich, Aug 15 '20 at 10:54
The x-axis by default is the index of your dataframe. If no specific index us set, the numbers 0,1,2,... are the default index. — JohanC, Aug 15 '20 at 12:32
@yupper can you show how u expecting output. if u can add an expected graphical output it would be great — Adhun Thalekkara, Aug 15 '20 at 18:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 15 '20 at 10:52

Since no code has been given to work with, here are the general solutions to your problem.

To manipulate/customize your xticks please refer to the Documentation

To change the color of your Barplots, the solution to that has already been answered in the following link.

Or consider reading the Documentation.

How can xtick labels refer to labels instead of index numbers?

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