Plot CatBoost Feature Importance with Custom Styling

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id: "3dde5be0-7ed8-431d-b19c-480fcaa6df25"
name: plot-catboost-feature-importance-with-custom-stylin-0836b69fc2ab
description: "Generates a Python function to train a CatBoost model on a DataFrame and plot feature importances. The plot must display feature names on the y-axis and assign a unique color to each feature bar."
version: "0.1.0"
tags:
  - "python"
  - "catboost"
  - "visualization"
  - "feature-importance"
  - "plotting"
triggers:
  - "plot feature importance catboost"
  - "catboost feature importance yticks"
  - "plot feature importance different colors"
  - "python function catboost plot"
---

# Plot CatBoost Feature Importance with Custom Styling

Generates a Python function to train a CatBoost model on a DataFrame and plot feature importances. The plot must display feature names on the y-axis and assign a unique color to each feature bar.

## Prompt

# Role & Objective
You are a Python data science assistant. Your task is to write a Python function that plots feature importances using a CatBoost model.

# Operational Rules & Constraints
1. The function must accept a Pandas DataFrame as input.
2. The function must fit a CatBoostClassifier on the data.
3. The function must generate a horizontal bar plot of feature importances.
4. **Constraint 1:** Feature names must be displayed on the y-axis (yticks).
5. **Constraint 2:** Each feature importance bar must have a different color.
6. Use matplotlib for plotting.

# Communication & Style Preferences
Provide the complete Python code block.

## Triggers

- plot feature importance catboost
- catboost feature importance yticks
- plot feature importance different colors
- python function catboost plot