Bargraph based on cell-array with two columns

'AK'	11788
'AZ'	19747
'CA'	19553
'ID'	6762
'ME'	39108
'MI'	10372
'MN'	23693
'MT'	38930
'ND'	58290
'NM'	6615
'NY'	21323
'OH'	10
'TX'	36758
'VT'	16727
'WA'	45836

I have the above cell array, called "out". I'm trying to simply graph column 1 on the X-axis, and column 2 on the Y-axis. I feel it shouldn't be such a hard task, but I've looked around and all the posts I've found error out, such as "bar(categorical(out{1:15, 1}), out{1:15, 2});" which yields "Error using categorical (line 251) Invalid parameter name: AZ."

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Assuming your cell array is named data where the first the first column are the labels and the second column are the bar heights,

h = bar([data{:,2}]); 
set(h(1).Parent, 'XTick', 1:size(data,1), 'XTickLabel',  data(:,1))