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Firstly, apologies if this is a silly question, this is my first time using plotly. I am trying to make a sunburst diagram using my 'actor' dataframe, but I get an attribute error when I attempt to do so:

Error:

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-32-2e5f13ef3c16> in <module>
----> 1 px.data.actor

AttributeError: module 'plotly.express.data' has no attribute 'actor'

Screenshot:

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I have the following packages imported at the top:

import plotly.graph_objects as go
import plotly.io as pio
import plotly.express as px

Can anyone see where I'm going wrong? Thanks in advance!

vestland
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    How did the suggested solutions work out for you? – vestland Feb 25 '20 at 21:29
  • I didn’t realise plotly express had a load of pre-built data sets I could access through the .data attribute! When I ran the line without the call to plotly.data.actor (and adjusted my data frame based off further research), it produced a lovely sunburst diagram. Thanks for your help! – Dan Harrison Feb 26 '20 at 07:41
  • Happy to help! Plotly express is a real gem with lots of stuff to explore. I've only just begun myself. – vestland Feb 26 '20 at 07:59

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It seems you're assuming that px.data.actor somehow would make your dataframe actor available to plotly. And I can understand why since px.data will make some built-in datasets available to you, like px.data.carshare():

    centroid_lat    centroid_lon    car_hours   peak_hour
0   45.471549       -73.588684      1772.750000 2
1   45.543865       -73.562456      986.333333  23
2   45.487640       -73.642767      354.750000  20
3   45.522870       -73.595677      560.166667  23
4   45.453971       -73.738946      2836.666667 19

[...]   

244 45.547171       -73.556258      951.416667  3
245 45.546482       -73.574939      795.416667  2
246 45.495523       -73.627725      425.750000  8
247 45.521199       -73.581789      1044.833333 17
248 45.532564       -73.567535      694.916667  5

To inspect all datatasets avaiable to you in the same manner, just run dir(px.data) to get:

['absolute_import',
 'carshare',
 'election',
 'election_geojson',
 'gapminder',
 'iris',
 'tips',
 'wind']

But since actor already is available to you (because you've presumably made it yourself), the line px.data.actor() is not necessary at all.

P.S

Running px.express.carshare() returns a pandas dataframe. To keep working with this dataframe it's best to assign it to a variable like this: df_cs = px.data.carshare()

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The error looks self-explanatory. I'm not really sure why calling the .actor() method is necessary in the code. px.data will load some datasets that are a part of the library. Some of these include iris, tips, wind, ... Since you already have the dataframe, this call is unnecessary.

Here is an exhaustive list from the code.

Simply remove the line and it should work.

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