Exploding out slices of a Pie Chart in Plotly - Pythoneo: Python Programming, Seaborn & Plotly Tutorials

Learn how to explode pie chart slices in Plotly using the pull parameter for interactive visualizations.

plotly example pie chart exploded one slice out

To see how to explode slice out I need example pie chart. I imported Plotly Express and use tips data which is defined in Plotly as example data set to work on.

This is a code of my example pie chart.

import plotly.express as px

data_frame = px.data.tips()
pie_chart = px.pie(data_frame,
             names='day',
             values='tip',
             title='Tips values by day',
             template='gridon')
pie_chart.show()

plotly example pie chart

How to define pull

To explode out slices of my pie chart I need to update traces and define pull parameter. The higher the pull the more slices are exploded out from the pie chart.

pie_chart.update_traces(pull=0.1)

plotly example pie chart all slices exploded out

How to explode one slice of a pie

There is also a possibility to explode only one slice of a pie. To explode only one of them you need to create a list of pull parameter.

pie_chart.update_traces(pull=[0.1, 0, 0, 0])

plotly example pie chart exploded one slice out

And this is how one exploded out slice look like. Thanks to that I impored visibility of Sundays tips.