Bar chart drawing: lines getting mixed up and overlapping

Question

I am trying to follow this example](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/157028/122628) to draw a basic bar chart but the lines are getting mixed up. I think it's because major differences between the two columns.

\documentclass[border=0.2cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\begin{document}
\pgfplotstableread[row sep=\,col sep=&]{
    interval & dynamic & static \
0  & 0  & 0  \
1  & 0  & 0  \
2  & 0  & 0  \
3  & 0  & 0  \
4  & 0  & 0  \
5  & 0  & 0  \
6  & 0  & 0  \
7  & 0  & 0  \
8  & 0  & 0  \
9  & 0  & 0  \
10  & 0  & 0  \
11  & 0  & 0  \
12  & 0  & 0  \
13  & 1  & 0  \
14  & 46  & 6  \
15  & 66  & 9  \
16  & 157  & 18  \
17  & 649  & 79  \
    }\mydata
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
            ybar,
            legend style={at={(0.5,1)},
                anchor=north,legend columns=-1},
            symbolic x coords={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17}
            xtick=data,
            nodes near coords,
            nodes near coords align={vertical},
            ylabel={%},
        ]
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=dynamic]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=static]{\mydata};
        \legend{Dynamic,Static}
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Please confirm that your code is compilable. There is missing a , in the options and I can not reproduce your output. — hpekristiansen, Apr 26 '22 at 08:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '22 at 15:05

With only minimal changes to the code (see corresponding comments in the code)

\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
        \pgfplotstableread[row sep=\\,col sep=&]{
            interval & dynamic & static \\
            0  & 0  & 0  \\
            1  & 0  & 0  \\
            2  & 0  & 0  \\
            3  & 0  & 0  \\
            4  & 0  & 0  \\
            5  & 0  & 0  \\
            6  & 0  & 0  \\
            7  & 0  & 0  \\
            8  & 0  & 0  \\
            9  & 0  & 0  \\
            10  & 0  & 0  \\
            11  & 0  & 0  \\
            12  & 0  & 0  \\
            13  & 1  & 0  \\
            14  & 46  & 6  \\
            15  & 66  & 9  \\
            16  & 157  & 18  \\
            17  & 649  & 79  \\
        }\mydata
    \begin{axis}[
        width=10cm,
        height=7cm,
        ybar,
        % to make the individual bars independent of the `width' of the
        % surrounding axis give a `bar width' in axis units
        /pgf/bar width=1,
        legend style={at={(0.5,0.98)},
            anchor=north,legend columns=-1},
%        symbolic x coords={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17},   % <-- the trailing comma was missing
        xtick=data,
        nodes near coords,
%        nodes near coords align={vertical},    % not needed
        nodes near coords style={
        ylabel={\%},
    ]
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=dynamic]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=static]{\mydata};
        \legend{Dynamic,Static}
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

I get

Bar chart drawing: lines getting mixed up and overlapping

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