Python – Plotting Pie charts in excel sheet using XlsxWriter module
XlsxWriter is a Python library using which one can perform multiple operations on excel files like creating, writing, arithmetic operations and plotting graphs. Let’s see how to plot different types of pie charts using realtime data. Charts are composed of at least one series of one or more data points. Series themselves are comprised of references to cell ranges.
For plotting the charts on an excel sheet, firstly, create chart object of specific chart type( i.e Pie chart etc.). After creating chart objects, insert data in it and lastly, add that chart object in the sheet object. For plotting the simple Pie chart on an excel sheet, use add_chart() method with type ‘pie’ keyword argument of a workbook object.