Pandas DataFrame (TypeError: Empty 'DataFrame': no numeric data to plot)

Question

I'm trying to learn how to use pandas and im trying to display a plot showing the total births by sex & year.

[1] [https://i.sstatic.net/R7Vz7.png] (Cant figure out why there's another column called sex

but this image above the data im trying to plot

and keep getting TypeError: Empty 'DataFrame': no numeric data to plot)

This is what my code looks like

[2] https://i.sstatic.net/FbZmM.png

Greg Miller · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-09 03:32:08Z

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This is happening because during the pivot the dataFrame becomes multi-indexed. There are no columns with values to plot against eachother. You can use df.reset_index() to set the multiple indexes as columns, and then plot their values.

answered Oct 9, 2016 at 3:32

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