How to create pie chart using python?

Today we are going to take a look on how to plot your data in a pie chart. I know there are lots of software out there. But I will focus on using python. To do it, we are going to use a python package called 'matplotlib'. If you are using macOS or Linux, you can get it by the following command-

pip install matplotlib

For the demonstration, I am going to use the data from this paper. Now, open your favorite IDE and write-

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
# Data to plot
labels = 'Title I', 'General Fund', 'SIG or ARRA', 'Other disctrict funds', 'Wallace', '21CCLC', 'City funds', 'Other private'
sizes = [51, 9, 6, 9, 17, 4, 2, 2]
colors = ['Grey','gold', 'yellowgreen', 'lightcoral', 'lightskyblue','green','blue','red']

 
# Plot
plt.pie(sizes, labels=labels, colors=colors,
        autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True, startangle=140)
 
plt.axis('equal')
plt.show()

And this will produce -
Looks good?. What if you want to slice you pie chart? You just need to add one line-

explode = (0.1, 0, 0, 0)

Boom. You are done. The full code will look like this-

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
# Data to plot
labels = 'Title I', 'General Fund', 'SIG or ARRA', 'Other disctrict funds', 'Wallace', '21CCLC', 'City funds', 'Other private'
sizes = [51, 9, 6, 9, 17, 4, 2, 2]
colors = ['Grey','gold', 'yellowgreen', 'lightcoral', 'lightskyblue','green','blue','red']
explode = (0.1, 0, 0, 0)  # explode 1st slice
 
# Plot
plt.pie(sizes, labels=labels, colors=colors,
        autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True, startangle=140)
 
plt.axis('equal')
plt.show()