Stacked Bar Chart with Text Overlay

This example shows how to overlay text on a stacked bar chart. For both the bar and text marks, we use the stack argument in the x encoding to cause the values to be stacked horizontally.

Method syntax

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source=data.barley()

bars = alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('sum(yield):Q').stack('zero'),
    y=alt.Y('variety:N'),
    color=alt.Color('site')
)

text = alt.Chart(source).mark_text(dx=-15, dy=3, color='white').encode(
    x=alt.X('sum(yield):Q').stack('zero'),
    y=alt.Y('variety:N'),
    detail='site:N',
    text=alt.Text('sum(yield):Q', format='.1f')
)

bars + text

Attribute syntax

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source=data.barley()

bars = alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('sum(yield):Q', stack='zero'),
    y=alt.Y('variety:N'),
    color=alt.Color('site')
)

text = alt.Chart(source).mark_text(dx=-15, dy=3, color='white').encode(
    x=alt.X('sum(yield):Q', stack='zero'),
    y=alt.Y('variety:N'),
    detail='site:N',
    text=alt.Text('sum(yield):Q', format='.1f')
)

bars + text