Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

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Since it is a circular spider web, we need to connect the last point to the first point, so that there is a circular flow of the graph. To achieve this, we need to repeat the first department data point at the end of the list again. Hence, in the following example, 30 and 32 (the first entry in each of the lists) are repeated at the end again.

The following code block plots a polar graph and displays it on the screen:

1. Set up the data for a polar plot:

Depts = ["COGS","IT","Payroll","R & D", "Sales & Marketing"]rp = [30, 15, 25, 10, 20, 30]ra = [32, 20, 23, 11, 14, 32]theta = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, len(rp))

2. Initialize the spider plot by setting figure size and polar projection:

plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))plt.subplot(polar=True) ...