Plotting a trend graph in Python

Last Updated : 21 Apr, 2021

Prerequisites: Matplotlib

A trend Graph is a graph that is used to show the trends data over a period of time. It describes a functional representation of two variables (x , y). In which the x is the time-dependent variable whereas y is the collected data. The graph can be in shown any form that can be via line chart, Histograms, scatter plot, bar chart, and pie-chart. In python, we can plot these trend graphs by using matplotlib.pyplot library. It is used for plotting a figure for the given data.

The task is simple and straightforward, for plotting any graph we must suffice the basic data requirement after this determine the values of x over the period of time and data collected for y. Plot the graphs for the above-given data.

Given below are various implementations to depict the same:

Example 1:

Python3

# import all the libraries 
import numpy as np 
import pandas as pd 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
  
# create a dataframe 
Sports = { 
    "medals": [100, 98, 102, 56, 78, 56, 78, 96], 
    "Time_Period": [2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017] 
} 
  
df = pd.DataFrame(Sports) 
print(df) 
  
# to plot the graph 
df.plot(x="Time_Period", y="medals", kind="line") 
plt.show() 

Output:

   medals  Time_Period
0     100         2010
1      98         2011
2     102         2012
3      56         2013
4      78         2014
5      56         2015
6      78         2016
7      96         2017

Example 2: Using the above data we would plot the scatter and bar graph.

Python3

# import all the libraries 
import numpy as np 
import pandas as pd 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
  
# create a dataframe 
Sports = { 
    "medals": [100, 98, 102, 56, 78, 56, 
               78, 96], 
    
    "Time_Period": [2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 
                    2014, 2015, 2016, 2017] 
} 
df = pd.DataFrame(Sports) 
print(df) 
  
  
# to plot the graph 
# subplot (rowno,columno,position) is used 
# to plot in a single frame. 
# to plot the scatter graph ,write kind= scatter 
df.plot(x="Time_Period", y="medals", kind="scatter") 
plt.title("scatter chart") 
plt.subplot(1, 1, 1) 
  
  
# to Plot the graph in Bar chart 
df.plot(x="Time_Period", y="medals", kind="bar") 
plt.title("bar") 
plt.subplot(1, 1, 2) 
  
plt.show() 

Output:

Example 3: student getting marks in 2010.

Python3

# import the library 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
  
  
# Creation of Data 
x1 = ['math', 'english', 'science', 'Hindi', 'social studies'] 
y1 = [92, 54, 63, 75, 53] 
y2 = [86, 44, 65, 98, 85] 
  
# Plotting the Data 
plt.plot(x1, y1, label='Semester1') 
plt.plot(x1, y2, label='semester2') 
  
plt.xlabel('subjects') 
plt.ylabel('marks') 
plt.title("marks obtained in 2010") 
  
plt.plot(y1, 'o:g', linestyle='--', linewidth='8') 
plt.plot(y2, 'o:g', linestyle=':', linewidth='8') 
  
plt.legend()