DDC-20: Exploding pie chart

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Today’s challenge

The following data come from a survey of people’s favorite ice cream flavors (j/k, these are fake data that I made up).

 Chocolate : 24
   Vanilla : 16
  Broccoli : 9
 Pistachio : 16

Visualize these data in a pie chart as below.

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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# data and labels, specified in a dictionary
d = {
    'Chocolate': 24,
     'Vanilla' : 16,
    'Broccoli' : 9,
   'Pistachio' : 16,
   }


# note that plt.pie() automatically computes proportion
plt.pie(d.values(), labels=d.keys(),
        explode=[0,.1,0,.15],autopct='%.1f%%',radius=1.2 )

plt.show()