Horizontal stacked bar chart in Matplotlib

To plot stacked bar chart in Matplotlib, we can use barh() methods

Steps

• Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
• Create a list of years, issues_addressed and issues_pending, in accordance with years.
• Plot horizontal bars with years and issues_addressed data.
• To make stacked horizontal bars, use barh() method with years, issues_pending and issues_addressed data
• Place the legend on the plot.
• To display the figure, use show() method.

Example

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.50, 3.50] plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True year = [2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019] issues_addressed = [10, 14, 0, 10, 15, 15] issues_pending = [5, 10, 50, 2, 0, 10] b1 = plt.barh(year, issues_addressed, color="red") b2 = plt.barh(year, issues_pending, left=issues_addressed, color="yellow") plt.legend([b1, b2], ["Completed", "Pending"], title="Issues", loc="upper right") plt.show()

Output