Official Release of bar_chart_race

A Python Package for Creating Animated Bar Chart Races

I’m excited to announce the official release of bar_chart_race, a python package for creating bar chart races. In this post, I'll cover many of the major available options. Navigate to the official documentation for all of the options.

Motivation

Bar chart races have become very popular over the last year and no python package existed to create them. I built some for my coronavirus dashboard.

YouTube Tutorial

This post is available as a tutorial on YouTube

Installation

Install with:

pip install bar_chart_race

This is the first major release — version 0.1.0

>>> import bar_chart_race as bcr
>>> bcr.__version__
'0.1.0'

Data must be in a particular format