area

Draws a stacked area plot.

An area plot displays quantitative data visually.

Syntax

area(x, y, **kwargs)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
x	str	Name of column to use for the horizontal axis.
y	str or list of str	Name(s) of the column(s) to plot.
**kwargs	optional	Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

plotly.graph_objs.Figure

Examples

Python

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from datetime import datetime
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
data = [
    (3, 5, 20, datetime(2018, 1, 31)),
    (2, 5, 42, datetime(2018, 2, 28)),
    (3, 6, 28, datetime(2018, 3, 31)),
    (9, 12, 62, datetime(2018, 4, 30))
]
columns = ["sales", "signups", "visits", "date"]
df = spark.createDataFrame(data, columns)
df.plot.area(x='date', y=['sales', 'signups', 'visits'])