What's New

Version 0.2

Upcoming release on July xx, 2020

Major New Features

• Plotly animated bar charts with bar_chart_race_plotly
• Line chart races with line_chart_race

Other enhancements

• Integration directly into pandas DataFrames - df.bcr.bar_chart_race
• Bar label position able to be specified ('outside', 'inside', or None) using new parameter bar_label_position.
• Bar label formatting possible with string or function using new parameter bar_label_fmt
• Added end_period_pause parameter that creates a pause (in milliseconds) at the end of each period
• Parameter title, in addition to a string, can also be a dictionary using 'label' as the key for the title. Other keys may be used to control text properties
• Removed title_size and label_bars parameter

Version 0.1

Released June 1, 2020

This is the first major release of bar_chart_race adding many features:

• Fixed bar position
• Fixed max value
• Perpendicular bars
• Interpolation of the period
• Formatting of the period label
• Period label summary
• Support for plotly colormaps

Version 0.0.1

Released April 29, 2020

Genesis of bar_chart_race capable of producing smoothly transitioning bars with matplotlib and pandas.