Making stacked plots
In this recipe, we will show you how to produce a stacked plot. Stacked plots are used when plotting a quantity which can be represented as the sum of several contributions. A stacked plot will allow us to represent not only the overall trend but also the trend of each individual components contributing to the total quantity.
Getting ready
We will consider the world's energy production as our total quantity and will represent the detailed break down in different energy sourced. We will represent the evolution of energy production type from 1973 to 2014. This data is contained in the file ch03-energy-production.csv. The data has been taken from http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/ and reshaped for the need of the recipe. ...
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