Draw a project planning timeline by matplotlib
Simply provide the milestone and task and their timing in the python code, the timeline will be created using matplotlib. I am creating this script for project managment. May or may not do further enhancement based on my working needs.
Using the dataset as the example below:
dataset = {
'Department A' : [
[['Plan Delivery', '2021-9-26'], 'r'],
[['Communication 1', '2021-10-29'], 'g'],
[['Resource Prepare', '2021-7-26'], 'y'],
[['Deliver 1', '2021-10-20']],
[['Deliver 2', '2021-12-14']],
[['Final Delivery', '2022-4-20']],
],
'Department B' : [
[['Experiment', '2021-4-1', '2021-8-2'], 'p'],
[['Result 1', '2021-6-15']],
[['Result 2', '2021-7-28']]
],
'Department C' : [
[['Product Launch Process', '2022-2-10', '2022-6-11']],
[['RC1', '2022-2-10']],
[['RC2', '2022-5-28']]
]
}
Various data groups will be provided, each containing milestones and tasks. Each group will be depicted in non overlapping y spans.
The default item color is set by defaultColor. For each milestone or task, you can specify its color separately
| color specifier | Actual Color |
|---|---|
| 'r' | 'tab:red' |
| 'g' | 'tab:green' |
| 'b' | 'tab:blue' |
| 'y' | 'tab:olive' |
| 'p' | 'tab:pink' |
When multi colors are used, it is useful to create a legend for different color
myLegend = [
['Group 1', 'r'],
['Group 2', 'g'],
['Group 3', 'p'],
['Group 4', 'cornflowerblue'],
]
Color legend will gives an extra dimension other than the y span group.
The generated timeline will be dipicted as below:
