How to Create a Polar Histogram With Python and Matplotlib

Hi, and welcome to this Python + Matplotlib tutorial, where I will show you how to create the beautiful polar histogram you see above. Polar histograms are great when you have too many values for a standard bar chart. The circular shape where each bar gets thinner towards the middle allows us to cram more information into the same area. A nice feature is the resulting visual comparison between the lowest and highest values as they meet each other after one lap around the center. In this tutorial, I’m using data from the <a href="https://worldhappiness.report/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">World Happiness Report</a> and information about income levels from the <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">World Bank</a>. Both data sources are publicly available under Creative Commons licenses. My data frame contains 146 countries and three columns. Here’s what it looks like. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-create-a-polar-histogram-with-python-and-matplotlib-9e266c22c0fa">Read More</a>