Pandas Series: plot.pie() function

Last update on September 15 2022 12:57:06 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Series-plot.pie() function

A pie plot is a proportional representation of the numerical data in a column. This function wraps matplotlib.pyplot.pie() for the specified column. If no column reference is passed and subplots=True a pie plot is drawn for each numerical column independently.

The plot.pie() function is used to generate a pie plot.

Syntax:

Series.plot.pie(self, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Type/Default Value	Required / Optional
y	Label or position of the column to plot. If not provided, subplots=True argument must be passed.	int or label	Optional
**kwds	Keyword arguments to pass on to DataFrame.plot().

Returns: matplotlib.axes.Axes or np.ndarray of them
A NumPy array is returned when subplots is True.

Example - In the example below we have a DataFrame with the information about planet’s mass and radius. We pass the the ‘mass’ column to the pie function to get a pie plot:

Python-Pandas Code:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'mass': [1898, 0.642 , 5.97],
                   'radius': [6051.8, 6378.1, 71492]},
                  index=['Mars', 'Earth', 'Jupiter'])
plot = df.plot.pie(y='mass', figsize=(6, 6))

Output:

Python-Pandas Code:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'mass': [1898, 0.642 , 5.97],
                   'radius': [6051.8, 6378.1, 71492]},
                  index=['Mars', 'Earth', 'Jupiter'])
plot = df.plot.pie(subplots=True, figsize=(6, 4))

Output:

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