HorizontalBar

Following on from #1780, #1836, #1851, #1852

How do people feel about a HorizontalBar variation of Bar, where the categorical axis runs on the y (and the bars run Horizontally)?

One small naming concern is a potential confusion between:

• Bar Graph aka Horizontal Bar Graph (we currently don’t have a chart for)
• Column Graph aka Vertical Bar Graph (currently Bar)

I’m not sure what people use for references on this stuff, I have a few books lying around, but have only picked stuff up informally, so I have no idea what “correct” is or should be.

But it seems that maybe being explicit and just having HorizontalBar and VerticalBar (which would imply a name change for Bar) might be useful.

[su79eu7k]

Google search term “bokeh horizontal bar plot” took me here. After review this thread, I tried workaround by using .quad() to mimic stacked horizontal bar chart. If some of you urgently need the chart like me before HBar(), VBar() implemented, please refer to my example. @dbendet @silviaegt

<img src=“http://i.imgur.com/uAL9NsM.png”, width=“200”, height=“200”><img src="http://i.imgur.com/hewQX7C.png, width=“200”, height=“200”>

[bryevdv]

The HBar glyph (and corresponding hbar glyph method on figure) has existed for some time now. There’s not currently a maintainer for bokeh.charts so I would not expect anything added there anytime soon unless someone new steps in.