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I would like to make a 'bubble' plot, but with rectangular markers. Is it possible to do this in Python?

On x-axis should be the day of the week (Mon, Tue, Wed,...), on y-axis - counts, how many times people came to a restaurant, the area of rectangles - the number of people came to a restaurant. A height of rectangles is always the same, only a width changes.

So, one rectangle on the plot shows how many people how many times came to a restaurant on a particular day of the week. As axis y may have values > 30, bubbles are not suitable and I consider that rectangles works better.

A sketch of what I would like to draw is below.

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Is it possible to draw rectangular markers or is there another good way for visualizing the same concept?

UPDATE: I've already tried box and violin plots. The problem with boxplots is that in my case a height of a box is quite small and a tail is long. There are a lot of points indicating outliers. I would prefer to see some difference in outliers instead of a single point. With a bubble plot, it is possible to use some customized function for bubble size, e,g, logarithm.

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I can imagine a transposed boxplot() working well... in a figure with seven subplots...

https://github.com/steadfordium/ga_pre/blob/master/bar_as_rectangular_bubble.ipynb

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for the solution, @steadfordium! I still need to polish the plot for good visualization, but it is more about playing with design features (gaps between bars, colors etc) and I am able to do this myself. Have a nice day! $\endgroup$ – Mirit Mar 5 '18 at 10:16

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