# English usage. Barplot of the number of people/persons in/by/on/per/for

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**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840 "2018-12-19T19:16:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juan/32/7657_2.png) [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/1 "2018-12-19T19:16:41Z")

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Hello.

What’s the proper way to say in English I want to explain the results of a barplot (with / of / from) the… ?

… number of ( **people / persons** ) ( \*\*by / per / as a function of / according to \*\* ) the number of heart attacks suffered.

or also

… number of occurrences ( **by / for each / per** ) category or year.

What options would you choose?

I know this is not an English grammar forum but I have a question related with plots and statistics and maybe you can help on the Offtopic section.  
When I ask this kind of things at language web sites they say they don’t understand what I mean or they just don’t reply. For example I once asked at [english.stackexchange.com](http://english.stackexchange.com) what is the right option:

- every/all person’s/people’s time.
- the time of/from each person.  
but nobody answered.

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/2 "2018-12-19T20:17:13Z")

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Could you show the plot you’re talking about?

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/3 "2018-12-19T20:20:01Z")

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[https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22644/by-vs-per-which-one-should-i-use-on-expressions-like-pl-geography-or-va](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22644/by-vs-per-which-one-should-i-use-on-expressions-like-pl-geography-or-va)

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**Author:** ![Juan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juan/32/7657_2.png) [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/4 "2018-12-19T21:02:59Z")

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For example this one:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/1/a11dbb1c29c489a0b5952fdfa8ed2679f3e9e9ee.png)

I have two baplots

1. x-axis = different categories, y-axis = number of occurrences.
2. x-axis = total number of occurrences, y-axis = number of people that suffered them.

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/5 "2018-12-19T21:04:08Z")

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And persons or people?

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/6 "2018-12-19T21:18:41Z")

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[https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/102614/in-england-do-people-use-people-or-persons-more](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/102614/in-england-do-people-use-people-or-persons-more)

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**Author:** ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/7 "2018-12-19T21:40:34Z")

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as axis labels “number of people” x “number of heart attacks”  
or “persons” x “heart attacks per person”

if you like

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/8 "2018-12-19T23:20:09Z")

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Then isn’t it right “Number of occurrences by event type”?

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/9 "2018-12-19T23:22:14Z")

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Then I should use people for the plural and for the singular is better to say person and each person, isn’t it?

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/10 "2018-12-19T23:44:16Z")

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yes

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/english-usage-barplot-of-the-number-of-people-persons-in-by-on-per-for/18840/11 "2018-12-19T23:45:47Z")

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> [@Juan](#):
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> “Number of occurrences by event type”

“Number of occurrences by type of event”  
“Occurences per Event Type”