I eventually found a trick (edit: see below for using seaborn and longform dataframe):
Solution with pandas and matplotlib
Here it is with a more complete example :
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.cm as cm
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def plot_clustered_stacked(dfall, labels=None, title="multiple stacked bar plot", H="/", **kwargs):
"""Given a list of dataframes, with identical columns and index, create a clustered stacked bar plot.
labels is a list of the names of the dataframe, used for the legend
title is a string for the title of the plot
H is the hatch used for identification of the different dataframe"""
n_df = len(dfall)
n_col = len(dfall[0].columns)
n_ind = len(dfall[0].index)
axe = plt.subplot(111)
for df in dfall : # for each data frame
axe = df.plot(kind="bar",
linewidth=0,
stacked=True,
ax=axe,
legend=False,
grid=False,
**kwargs) # make bar plots
h,l = axe.get_legend_handles_labels() # get the handles we want to modify
for i in range(0, n_df * n_col, n_col): # len(h) = n_col * n_df
for j, pa in enumerate(h[i:i+n_col]):
for rect in pa.patches: # for each index
rect.set_x(rect.get_x() + 1 / float(n_df + 1) * i / float(n_col))
rect.set_hatch(H * int(i / n_col)) #edited part
rect.set_width(1 / float(n_df + 1))
axe.set_xticks((np.arange(0, 2 * n_ind, 2) + 1 / float(n_df + 1)) / 2.)
axe.set_xticklabels(df.index, rotation = 0)
axe.set_title(title)
# Add invisible data to add another legend
n=[]
for i in range(n_df):
n.append(axe.bar(0, 0, color="gray", hatch=H * i))
l1 = axe.legend(h[:n_col], l[:n_col], loc=[1.01, 0.5])
if labels is not None:
l2 = plt.legend(n, labels, loc=[1.01, 0.1])
axe.add_artist(l1)
return axe
# create fake dataframes
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4, 5),
index=["A", "B", "C", "D"],
columns=["I", "J", "K", "L", "M"])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4, 5),
index=["A", "B", "C", "D"],
columns=["I", "J", "K", "L", "M"])
df3 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4, 5),
index=["A", "B", "C", "D"],
columns=["I", "J", "K", "L", "M"])
# Then, just call :
plot_clustered_stacked([df1, df2, df3],["df1", "df2", "df3"])
And it gives that :
You can change the colors of the bar by passing a cmap argument:
plot_clustered_stacked([df1, df2, df3],
["df1", "df2", "df3"],
cmap=plt.cm.viridis)
Solution with seaborn:
Given the same df1, df2, df3, below, I convert them in a long form:
df1["Name"] = "df1"
df2["Name"] = "df2"
df3["Name"] = "df3"
dfall = pd.concat([pd.melt(i.reset_index(),
id_vars=["Name", "index"]) # transform in tidy format each df
for i in [df1, df2, df3]],
ignore_index=True)
The problem with seaborn is that it doesn’t stack bars natively, so the trick is to plot the cumulative sum of each bar on top of each other:
dfall.set_index(["Name", "index", "variable"], inplace=1)
dfall["vcs"] = dfall.groupby(level=["Name", "index"]).cumsum()
dfall.reset_index(inplace=True)
>>> dfall.head(6)
Name index variable value vcs
0 df1 A I 0.717286 0.717286
1 df1 B I 0.236867 0.236867
2 df1 C I 0.952557 0.952557
3 df1 D I 0.487995 0.487995
4 df1 A J 0.174489 0.891775
5 df1 B J 0.332001 0.568868
Then loop over each group of variable and plot the cumulative sum:
c = ["blue", "purple", "red", "green", "pink"]
for i, g in enumerate(dfall.groupby("variable")):
ax = sns.barplot(data=g[1],
x="index",
y="vcs",
hue="Name",
color=c[i],
zorder=-i, # so first bars stay on top
edgecolor="k")
ax.legend_.remove() # remove the redundant legends
It lacks the legend that can be added easily I think. The problem is that instead of hatches (which can be added easily) to differentiate the dataframes we have a gradient of lightness, and it’s a bit too light for the first one, and I don’t really know how to change that without changing each rectangle one by one (as in the first solution).
Tell me if you don’t understand something in the code.
Feel free to re-use this code which is under CC0.