Create Time Series Animations in Python with Matplotlib! (Bar Chart Race)

Learn how to create fun animated bar chart races in Python using matplotlib! This tutorial walks through building population trend visualizations from scratch, covering data processing, basic plotting, animation techniques, and styling improvements. Perfect for anyone interested in data visualization who wants to recreate those engaging animated charts you've seen online. We'll turn static data into dynamic visualizations using just Python and matplotlib.

Link to Code:

Link to Dataset:

Video Timeline!
0:00 - Video Overview
1:01 - Step 0.) Find a Dataset to Use (link in description)
1:43 - Step 1.) Initial Data Processing/Cleaning
5:17 - Step 2.) Plot Static Bar Chart using Matplotlib
8:27 - Step 3.) Create animation using Matplotlib FuncAnimation & Save it as mp4 video
15:39 - Step 4.) Improve Formatting & Styles

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[fazilfaruqui]

Glad to see you're doing good Keith 👍🏻

[lukascalmbach]

Fantastic video. Thank you very much! It's always wondered how the animations are done, now I know! A pleasure also to see you work and solve problems. I believe the secret of programming in the future will be to find the balance of leveraging AI without completely relying on it.

[Dojo.FinancialData]

Thanks for the tutorial Keith! It's always great seeing how other people use Python, learnt a couple of new tricks!

[thequiickbrownfox]

what an interesting timing. I have been doing an analysis, and this video popped up. Thanks Keith, your other pandas playlist has been really helpful

[foland]

Good to see you again Keith python jedi. Good job, thanks for sharing

[alihanemretunc]

Seems like fun and today is Sunday, so I'll do mine after following you thank you Keith 💡

[ImaveriVEGA]

hey!! I really like you fix the problem in the video. Its even more useful due show its real . Again I really enjoy de videos Keith.Saludos

[rinskiii]

Keith, you read my thoughts, because I also recently thought about how to do it 😅

[mattattackms]

Holy smokes. I was just talking to a coworker about these. And he was like, “ I bet its pretty easy to make with python”

[perpl]

Keith you've been super helpful and an Inspiration, thank you ! - do you often run cron jobs or integrate scripts with bash ? if so id love to see a tutorial on that

[senthilvelanm]

im new to python, i would learn Qgis and ArcMap tool development, make some videos about that

[Danielsantos]

Hello Keith! ... What about you do some videos (with real world applications) showing the amazing universe of Holoviz libraries, like Panel, Holoviews, Datashader etc ? For example Holoviews is backed by Bokeh which in my opinion is much superior to create interactive(animated) plots than Matplotib.

[perpl]

got hit with 4 adds before i could watch this video !

[MQKhilji]

@KeithGalli Can you create another tutorial for the Moving Bubbles Chart? I already have the Python script. Just too lazy to create a video on it. Let me know if you need the script.

[m-]

24:40 i have to understand better this interpolation thing

[venugopal-ncnz]

I needed your advice .How to learn MLOPS ? @keith Galli