Create a Racing Bar Chart in Python

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Racing Bar Chart

I often come across the racing bar charts in many LinkedIn posts.

I am sure you would have seen them too.

It is an elegant animation that depicts the progress of multiple categories over time.

I always wondered how one can create them in Python.

Turns out, there’s a pretty simple way to do it just a couple of lines of Python code using Bar-chart-race library.

To create a racing bar chart, you can use its bar_chart_race() method.

The input must be a Pandas DataFrame:

• Every row should represent a specific period of time

• Each column should hold the value for a particular category

• The index may contain the time component

After aligning the DataFrame in the desired format, you can create the racing bar chart as follows:

This will generate the racing bar chart right in your Jupyter notebook.

Isn’t that cool?

👉 Over to you: What other charts do you love creating in Python?

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