title: Horizontal box plots in matplotlib/Pandas
body: <h3>Bar plots:</h3>
  
  <p><code>matplotlib</code> offers the function <a href="http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=bar#matplotlib.pyplot.bar" rel="noreferrer"><code>bar</code></a> and <a href="http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.barh" rel="noreferrer"><code>barh</code></a> to do <strong>vertical</strong> and <strong>horizontal</strong> bar plots. </p>
  
  <h3>Box plots:</h3>
  
  <p><code>matplotlib</code> also offers the function <a href="http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=boxplot#matplotlib.pyplot.boxplot" rel="noreferrer"><code>boxplot</code></a> to do <strong>vertical</strong> box plots. </p>
  
  <p>And <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/" rel="noreferrer">Pandas</a> offers <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/generated/pandas.DataFrame.boxplot.html" rel="noreferrer">its own function</a> for <strong>vertical</strong> box plots.</p>
  
  <p>But is there any way in matplotlib or Pandas to get a <strong>horizontal</strong> box plot? </p>