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Can't Figure Out How to Build a Pie Chart

Greg_Thompson_JrMar 23, 2015 #1

I’d like to construct a pie chart. Currently, the documentation covers donut charts. Visually, those appear to be the closest to what I’m looking for, but I don’t know how I’d go about leveraging the Donut class to construct a pie chart. I was told by someone running the Bokeh Twitter page to check out wedges. That wasn’t very helpful.

Is there any working example of a pie chart? Ultimately, I will want to embed the chart in a webpage.

I’ve also asked on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29201177/how-do-i-create-a-pie-chart-using-bokeh

Thanks.

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BryanMar 23, 2015 #2

To be fair, Twitter is not exactly conducive to technical discussions. Here is a simple Pie chart using wedge, which takes a center point and radius as parameters, together with a list of start and end angles (currently in radians) for each wedge you want.

from bokeh.plotting import *
from numpy import pi

    # define starts/ends for wedges from percentages of a circle
    percents = [0, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.9, 1]
    starts = [p*2*pi for p in percents[:-1]]
    ends = [p*2*pi for p in percents[1:]]

# a color for each pie piece
colors = ["red", "green", "blue", "orange", "yellow"]

    # create a figure and add a wedge glyph to it
    p = figure()
    p.wedge(x=0, y=0, radius=1, start_angle=starts, end_angle=ends, color=colors)

    # display/save everythin
    output_file("pie.html")
    show(p)

If you get a chance, please update the SO question.

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Greg Thompson Jr. <spockthompsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to construct a pie chart. Currently, the documentation covers donut charts. Visually, those appear to be the closest to what I'm looking for, but I don't know how I'd go about leveraging the `Donut` class to construct a pie chart. I was told by someone running the Bokeh Twitter page to check out wedges. That wasn't very helpful.

Is there any working example of a pie chart? Ultimately, I will want to embed the chart in a webpage.

I've also asked on StackOverflow: python - How do I create a pie chart using Bokeh? - Stack Overflow

Thanks.

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Greg_Thompson_JrMar 23, 2015 #3

This does not work. Is your example supposed to display anything?

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On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 10:20:39 PM UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven wrote:

To be fair, Twitter is not exactly conducive to technical discussions. Here is a simple Pie chart using wedge, which takes a center point and radius as parameters, together with a list of start and end angles (currently in radians) for each wedge you want.
from bokeh.plotting import *

from numpy import pi



# define starts/ends for wedges from percentages of a circle

percents = [0, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.9, 1]

starts = [p*2*pi for p in percents[:-1]]

ends = [p*2*pi for p in percents[1:]]



# a color for each pie piece

colors = ["red", "green", "blue", "orange", "yellow"]



# create a figure and add a wedge glyph to it

p = figure()

p.wedge(x=0, y=0, radius=1, start_angle=starts, end_angle=ends, color=colors)



# display/save everythin  

output_file("pie.html")

show(p)
If you get a chance, please update the SO question.

Thanks,

Bryan

On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Greg Thompson Jr. spockth...@gmail.com wrote:

I’d like to construct a pie chart. Currently, the documentation covers donut charts. Visually, those appear to be the closest to what I’m looking for, but I don’t know how I’d go about leveraging the Donut class to construct a pie chart. I was told by someone running the Bokeh Twitter page to check out wedges. That wasn’t very helpful.

Is there any working example of a pie chart? Ultimately, I will want to embed the chart in a webpage.

I’ve also asked on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29201177/how-do-i-create-a-pie-chart-using-bokeh

Thanks.

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BryanMar 23, 2015 #4

My apologies. I ran the code from my local branch, which has a much-improved auto-ranging functionality that is yet to be merged. For Bokeh 0.8.1 and below you will need to specify a range explicitly for this particular kind of plot:

from bokeh.plotting import *
from numpy import pi

   # define starts/ends for wedges from percentages of a circle
   percents = [0, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.9, 1]
   starts = [p*2*pi for p in percents[:-1]]
   ends = [p*2*pi for p in percents[1:]]

# a color for each pie piece
colors = ["red", "green", "blue", "orange", "yellow"]

# NOTE: this is the changed line
p = figure(x_range=(-1,1), y_range=(-1,1))

p.wedge(x=0, y=0, radius=1, start_angle=starts, end_angle=ends, color=colors)

   # display/save everythin
   output_file("pie.html")
   show(p)

Bokeh >0.9 will correctly compute the bounding area of all glyphs, not just "pointlike" marker glyphs, and setting the range inputs like this will not be required.

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Mar 22, 2015, at 11:12 PM, Greg Thompson Jr. <spockthompsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

This does not work. Is your example supposed to display anything?

On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 10:20:39 PM UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven wrote:
To be fair, Twitter is not exactly conducive to technical discussions. Here is a simple Pie chart using wedge, which takes a center point and radius as parameters, together with a list of start and end angles (currently in radians) for each wedge you want.

    from bokeh.plotting import *
    from numpy import pi

    # define starts/ends for wedges from percentages of a circle
    percents = [0, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.9, 1]
    starts = [p*2*pi for p in percents[:-1]]
    ends = [p*2*pi for p in percents[1:]]

    # a color for each pie piece
    colors = ["red", "green", "blue", "orange", "yellow"]

    # create a figure and add a wedge glyph to it
    p = figure()
    p.wedge(x=0, y=0, radius=1, start_angle=starts, end_angle=ends, color=colors)

    # display/save everythin
    output_file("pie.html")
    show(p)

If you get a chance, please update the SO question.

Thanks,

Bryan

> On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Greg Thompson Jr. <spockth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to construct a pie chart. Currently, the documentation covers donut charts. Visually, those appear to be the closest to what I'm looking for, but I don't know how I'd go about leveraging the `Donut` class to construct a pie chart. I was told by someone running the Bokeh Twitter page to check out wedges. That wasn't very helpful.
>
> Is there any working example of a pie chart? Ultimately, I will want to embed the chart in a webpage.
>
> I've also asked on StackOverflow: python - How do I create a pie chart using Bokeh? - Stack Overflow
>
> Thanks.
>
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