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How to create a timeline chart

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a graph like this, with some Python library? If so, does anyone have any examples to share?

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Solution

  • It should be pretty straight forward using plotly.express.timeline. Look at the first example on that page. If you want it on one y-axis position like your screenshot then try

    # example directly from Plotly
import plotly.express as px
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([
    dict(Task="Job A", Start='2009-01-01', Finish='2009-01-03'),
    dict(Task="Job B", Start='2009-01-03', Finish='2009-01-16'),
    dict(Task="Job C", Start='2009-01-16', Finish='2009-01-18')
])
# add color param and remove the y param from the example
fig = px.timeline(df, x_start="Start", x_end="Finish", color='Task')
fig.show()

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