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main.py
notebook.ipynb
main.rs
from plotapi import Chord

Chord(matrix, names).show()

Visualizations

Pie Fight

Everything you need to create beautiful, engaging, and interactive Pie Chart Race visualizations.


Importing PlotAPI Pie Fight

Let's import PieFight from the PlotAPI package.

from plotapi import PieFight

We've already activated our license with the license activation instructions.

Data structure

PlotAPI Pie Fight expects at minimum a list of dictionary items, these will define the value of our segments over time.

samples = [
    {"order": 0, "name": "Sankey", "value": 10},
    {"order": 0, "name": "Terminus", "value": 12},
    {"order": 0, "name": "Chord", "value": 8},
    {"order": 0, "name": "Bar Fight", "value": 9},
    {"order": 0, "name": "Pie Fight", "value": 12},

    {"order": 1, "name": "Sankey", "value": 18},
    {"order": 1, "name": "Terminus", "value": 24},
    {"order": 1, "name": "Chord", "value": 22},
    {"order": 1, "name": "Bar Fight", "value": 14},
    {"order": 1, "name": "Pie Fight", "value": 17},

    {"order": 2, "name": "Sankey", "value": 24},
    {"order": 2, "name": "Terminus", "value": 40},
    {"order": 2, "name": "Chord", "value": 32},
    {"order": 2, "name": "Bar Fight", "value": 19},
    {"order": 2, "name": "Pie Fight", "value": 42},

    {"order": 3, "name": "Sankey", "value": 32},
    {"order": 3, "name": "Terminus", "value": 62},
    {"order": 3, "name": "Chord", "value": 40},
    {"order": 3, "name": "Bar Fight", "value": 25},
    {"order": 3, "name": "Pie Fight", "value": 64},

    {"order": 4, "name": "Sankey", "value": 38},
    {"order": 4, "name": "Terminus", "value": 75},
    {"order": 4, "name": "Chord", "value": 55},
    {"order": 4, "name": "Bar Fight", "value": 45},
    {"order": 4, "name": "Pie Fight", "value": 120},
]

We can see that each dictionary item has three properties:

  • order which determines with time period this item belongs to. This should be numerical, but can be formatted e.g. as dates.
  • name the name of the item, and the text that appears on the pie chart segment.
  • value the value of the segment at the associated point in time.

Default visualization

Creating our first Pie Fight Diagram is as easy as calling PlotAPI with our one input.

Be sure to interact with the visualisation to see what the default settings can do!

PieFight(samples).show()
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