Plot stacked bar chart from pandas data frame

Question

I have dataframe:

payout_df.head(10)

What would be the easiest, smartest and fastest way to replicate the following excel plot?

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Answer 1

Besides the lack of data, I think the following code will produce the desired graph

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df.payout = pd.to_datetime(df.payout)

grouped = df.groupby(pd.Grouper(key='payout', freq='M')).sum()
grouped.plot(x=grouped.index.year, kind='bar', stacked=True)

plt.show()

I don't know how to reproduce this fancy x-axis style. Also, your payout column must be a datetime, otherwise pd.Grouper won't work (available frequencies).