Bar plots are misaligned by default · Issue #7498 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

There has been a recent change in bar plot default behavior that is causing misalignment of the bars on the y-axis. I'm not sure when this change occurred, but I will estimate 3-4 months ago.

Previously, bar plots looked like this:

However, the same code under '0.14.0-205-gbbde837' yields the following (ignore the theme differences):

So, the bars are bizarrely pushed to the right. Is matplotlib to blame for this (running 1.4.x)?

Running Python 2.7.6 (homebrew) on OS X 10.9.3.