title: how to plot categorical and continuous data in pandas/matplotlib/seaborn
body: <p>I am trying to figure out how could I plot this data:</p>
  
  <p>column 1 ['genres']: These are the value counts for all the genres in the table</p>
  
  <pre><code>Drama              2453
  Comedy             2319
  Action             1590
  Horror              915
  Adventure           586
  Thriller            491
  Documentary         432
  Animation           403
  Crime               380
  Fantasy             272
  Science Fiction     214
  Romance             186
  Family              144
  Mystery             125
  Music               100
  TV Movie             78
  War                  59
  History              44
  Western              42
  Foreign               9
  Name: genres, dtype: int64
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>column 2 ['release_year']: These are the value counts for all the release years for different kind of genres</p>
  
  <pre><code>2014    699
  2013    656
  2015    627
  2012    584
  2011    540
  2009    531
  2008    495
  2010    487
  2007    438
  2006    408
  2005    363
  2004    307
  2003    281
  2002    266
  2001    241
  2000    226
  1999    224
  1998    210
  1996    203
  1997    192
  1994    184
  1993    178
  1995    174
  1988    145
  1989    136
  1992    133
  1991    133
  1990    132
  1987    125
  1986    121
  1985    109
  1984    105
  1981     82
  1982     81
  1983     80
  1980     78
  1978     65
  1979     57
  1977     57
  1971     55
  1973     55
  1976     47
  1974     46
  1966     46
  1975     44
  1964     42
  1970     40
  1967     40
  1972     40
  1968     39
  1965     35
  1963     34
  1962     32
  1960     32
  1969     31
  1961     31
  Name: release_year, dtype: int64
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to answer the questions like - What genre is most popular from year to year? and so on</p>
  
  <p>what kind of plots can be used and what is the best way to do this since there would be a lot of bins ins a single chart? </p>
  
  <p>Is seaborn better for plotting such variables? </p>
  
  <p>Should I divide the year data into 2 decades(1900 and 2000)? </p>
  
  <pre><code>Sample of the table: 
      id   popularity runtime genres  vote_count  vote_average    release_year
  0   135397  32.985763   124 Action     5562     6.5             2015
  1   76341   28.419936   120 Action     6185     7.1             1995
  2   262500  13.112507   119 Adventure  2480     6.3             2015
  3   140607  11.173104   136 Thriller   5292     7.5             2013
  4   168259  9.335014    137 Action     2947     7.3             2005
  </code></pre>