How to make a mosaic plot in Matplotlib?

To make a mosaic plot in matplotlib, we can take the following steps.

Steps

Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
Install statsmodel package (pip install statsmodels). It is required to create mosaic plots. statsmodels is a Python package that provides a complement to scipy for statistical computations including descriptive statistics and estimation and inference for statistical models.
Make a dictionary for mosaic plot.
Create a mosaic plot from a contingency table.
To display the figure, use Show() method.

Example

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from statsmodels.graphics.mosaicplot import mosaic

plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True

# Dictionary for mosaic plot
data = {'John': 7, 'Joe': 10, 'James': 5, 'Kate': 1}

# Create mosaic plot
mosaic(data, title='Basic mosaic plot')

# Display the figure
plt.show()

Output

It will produce the following output −

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi

Updated on: 08-Oct-2021

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