How to Draw a Stack Plot

As we know that, the pie chart is an effective way to show the proportion of individual pieces of data as they relate to the data overall. One drawback of such charts is that they only show the data of a given moment. They do not show how parts of a population change over time. We can use stackplot to show how parts of the whole change over time.

stackplot() is the basic function that Matplotlib provides to create a stack plot. Below are some of the important parameters required by the function:

• x: 1d array of dimension N
• y: 2d array, dimension($M \times N$),or a sequence of arrays. Each dimension is $1 \times N$.

  stackplot(x, y)
  stackplot(x, y1, y2, y3)
  

• baseline: The method used to calculate the baseline.
  • zero a constant zero baseline, which is the default setting.
  • sym sets the plot symmetrically around zero.
  • wiggle minimizes the sum of the squared slopes.
• colors: Provides a list of colors for each data set.