plotting bar graph using matlab

Hii experts i want to make a beautiful bar plot using the attached data(data.txt). On the x axis i want to plot years such as 2007, 2008 etc from the first column data and on the y axis corresponding second column data.Most importantly, i want to mention only the year such as 2007 2008 only once along the x axis as on the x axis labels doesnot visible due to huge data.

my sample data is

2008-05-24 3.5

2008-05-25 4.3

2008-06-11 3.7

2008-06-14 3.8

Answer 1

[Akira Agata]

How about using a stem plot?

The following is an example:

tt = readtimetable('data.txt');

figure
stem(tt.Time, tt.Var1,'Marker','none')
xlabel('Years','FontSize',12)
ylabel('Amplitude','FontSize',12)
grid on

Answer 2

[Simon Chan]

Add xaxis limit:

xlim([datetime(2007,1,1) datetime(2016,12,31)])