How to Make a Pie Chart in Excel in Python

This quick guide provides an overview of how to make a Pie chart in Excel in Python. It has all the necessary information to setup the IDE, a list of tasks for writing the application, and a sample code to develop a Pie chart creator in Python. It describes the API calls necessary to generate the chart along with the introduction to other types of charts supported by this API.

Steps to Develop Pie Chart Generator in Python

  1. Set the environment to add Aspose.Cells for Python via Java to create a chart
  2. Create a new Workbook and fill in sample data for the Pie Chart
  3. Create a Pie chart in the target worksheet and access the chart
  4. Set the data series and category data for the chart
  5. Set chart title and labels for each slice in the pie chart
  6. Save the resultant workbook with a Pie Chart on the disk

These steps outline the necessary task to create a Pie graph in Python. The process is initiated by creating a workbook followed by filling in the sample data and creating a pie chart. In the final steps, the chart is customized by setting its data series, category data, chart tile, and data labels for each slice.

Code to Develop Pie Chart Maker in Python

This sample code exhibits how to insert Pie chart in Excel in Python. It uses the add() method in the ChartCollection class to add a new chart by providing the chart type as ChartType.PIE along with its boundary, sets data series and category data using the getNSeries().add() and getNSeries().setCategoryData() methods. You may set other chart types like AREA, BAR, BAR_STACKED, BUBBLE, COLUMN, COLUMN_STACKED, and CONE to list a very few.

In this article. we have learned the process to insert a chart in an Excel file. If you want to learn the process to insert a slicer in an Excel file, refer to the article on how to insert a slicer in Excel using Python.

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