This program is an example of creating a stacked area chart:
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# An example of creating a chart with Pandas and XlsxWriter.
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# Copyright 2013, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
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import pandas as pd
import pandas.io.data as web
from vincent.colors import brews
# Some sample data to plot.
all_data = {}
for ticker in ['AAPL', 'GOOGL', 'IBM', 'YHOO', 'MSFT']:
all_data[ticker] = web.get_data_yahoo(ticker, '1/1/2012', '1/1/2013')
# Create a Pandas dataframe from the data.
df = pd.DataFrame({tic: data['Adj Close']
for tic, data in all_data.items()})
# Create a Pandas Excel writer using XlsxWriter as the engine.
excel_file = 'stacked_area3.xlsx'
sheet_name = 'Sheet1'
writer = pd.ExcelWriter(excel_file, engine='xlsxwriter')
df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=sheet_name)
# Access the XlsxWriter workbook and worksheet objects from the dataframe.
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets[sheet_name]
# Adjust the width of the first column to make the date values clearer.
worksheet.set_column('A:A', 20)
# Create a chart object.
chart = workbook.add_chart({'type': 'area', 'subtype': 'stacked'})
# Configure the series of the chart from the dataframe data.
max_row = len(df) + 1
for i in range(len(ticker) + 1):
col = i + 1
chart.add_series({
'name': ['Sheet1', 0, col],
'categories': ['Sheet1', 2, 0, max_row, 0],
'values': ['Sheet1', 2, col, max_row, col],
'fill': {'color': brews['Accent'][i]},
})
# Configure the chart axes.
chart.set_x_axis({'name': 'Date', 'date_axis': True})
chart.set_y_axis({'name': 'Price', 'major_gridlines': {'visible': False}})
# Insert the chart into the worksheet.
worksheet.insert_chart('H2', chart)
# Close the Pandas Excel writer and output the Excel file.
writer.save()