What is Dot Chart in Pygal?

A dot chart, also known as a dot plot or strip plot is used to visualize the data points of a data set in a simple and effective way. It represents each data point as a dot along an axis. It is mostly used when we have to visualize small datasets.

Pygal Dot Chart

Pygal library in Python is an open-source library used for data visualization. We can draw various interactive plots and charts using different datasets. For example, bar charts, line charts, pie charts, radar charts, etc.

Install Pygal in Python

To draw a dot chart using Pygal in Python. We need the Pygal library to be installed in Python so, install the Pygal library by executing the below command in the terminal or command prompt:

pip install pygal

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What is Dot Chart in Pygal?

A dot chart, also known as a dot plot or strip plot is used to visualize the data points of a data set in a simple and effective way. It represents each data point as a dot along an axis. It is mostly used when we have to visualize small datasets....

Create Dot Chart using Pygal in Python

In this, we have drawn a basic dot chart of sample data “Monthly courses sales data“. We import the Pygal module and then create a dot chart object using pygal.Dot() method. Set the title to the dot chart and labels for the x-axis. After that add sales data to the dot chart using add() method by passing the label ‘Sales’ as the first argument and the list of data as the second argument. Finally, save the dot chart to an SVG file using the render_to_file() method of Pygal. In the output, we can see that dot chart and when we hover over any of the dots it shows the stats for that particular dot....

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