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I have a pandas dataframe which looks like:

A    B    C    D
1    2    3    4
5    6    7    8
9    10   11   12

And I need to plot all three rows and not columns. I know I can use iloc if I want a specific row but looking for something that could plot all rows together:

df.iloc[0]

I have also tried:

df.plot()

which plots columns A,B,... instead of rows.

NOTE: Number of rows is variable for different dataframes and could be up to 200 so I am not interested in setting colors or stuff like that

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    do you need df.T.plot()? Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 19:52
  • @Vaishali That did the job, please post it as an answer Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 19:54

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You can transpose the dataframe and then plot to plot the rows

df.T.plot()

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@Vaishali- Is there away to do this without transposing the data? Because, if the dataframe is huge then transposing takes a lot of time.
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So, you're plotting columns of data vs rows? Sounds like you need to transpose your dataframe. Use df.T.plot()

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Data should always be structured with observations as rows, and categories as columns. I encourage you to read about "Tidy Data" to make your life MUCH easier down the road jeannicholashould.com/tidy-data-in-python.html

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