Python:Plotly

Plotly is a Python library for creating interactive visualizations and charts, offering a variety of visualization options like line graphs, bar charts, heatmaps, and scatter plots.

Installation

The official release of Plotly can be installed with pip. The guidelines for installing it can be found here.

Plotly comprises several modules, each serving distinct purposes within the realm of data visualization.

Plotly Express

The plotly.express module, typically imported as px, provides an easy way to create various types of figures. It offers over 30 functions for generating different plot types, such as bar charts, line graphs, histograms, and more. These functions are designed to be straightforward and easy to learn, simplifying the creation of interactive and visually appealing plots in Python.

Plotly Graph Objects

The plotly.graph_objects module, commonly imported as go, includes objects like Figure, layout, and data that define plots such as line charts and scatter plots. While plotly.express internally uses this module, plotly.graph_objects provides a higher degree of control over visualization elements.

Plotly Figure Factory

The plotly.figure_factory module, often imported as ff, features specialized functions for creating complex graphs that may be challenging to build using plotly.express or plotly.graph_objects modules. Examples of such graphs include dendrograms, quiver plots, hexagonal binning, tile maps, streamline plots, and others.