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:
-
orderwhich determines with time period this item belongs to. This should be numerical, but can be formatted e.g. as dates. -
namethe name of the item, and the text that appears on the pie chart segment. -
valuethe 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()