Pandas DataFrame: plot.pie() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:51 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

DataFrame.plot.pie() function

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

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.

Syntax:

DataFrame.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().		Required

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

Example:

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