Radar plot comparing mergers and acquisitions by Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google and Microsoft per year

CSV to radar plot

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I find a radar plot a helpful tool for visual comparison between items when there are multiple axes. It helps me sort out my thoughts. Therefore I created a small script that helps me turn CSV to a radar plot. See the gist below, and read more about the usage of radar plots here.

So how does it works? you provide a csv file where the columns are the different properties and each record (i.e line) is a different item you want to create a scatter for.

The following figure was obtained based on this csv -

https://gist.github.com/tomron/e5069b63411319cdf5955f530209524a#file-examples-csv

The data in the file is based on - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shivamb/company-acquisitions-7-top-companies

And I used the following command -

python csv_to_radar.py examples.csv --fill toself --show_legend --title "Merger and Acquisitions by Tech Companies" --output_file merger.jpeg
Radar plot
https://gist.github.com/tomron/e5069b63411319cdf5955f530209524a