How to Create a Lipstick Chart with Matplotlib
Matplotlib Tutorial
Today, I will show you how to create a lipstick chart for visualizing progress on metrics where the lower the value, the better.
It's perfect when metrics have similar trends and topics but not the same scale. My aim is to share a message rather than "just" a plot.
I've prepared a simple dataset about mortality and diseases so that you can focus on creating the visualization.
The data comes from the World Bank and is publicly available under Creative Commons licenses. If you want to learn more, I've written about the visualization in my new free newsletter, Data Wonder.
If you enjoy this tutorial, make sure to take a look at my other ones as well.
Let's get started.
Step 1 – Importing libraries
The first and simplest part is to import the required libraries like pandas and matplotlib.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from PIL import Image
from matplotlib.lines import Line2DCongratulations, you just completed step 1!
