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Questions tagged [plotly-python]
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly.graph_objects'
Trying to use 'plotly.graph_objects' but I get this error
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly.graph_objects'
How do I download module and apply using anaconda navigator
MSG
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Plotly AttributeError: 'Figure' object has no attribute 'update_layout'
I am trying to add a title to my plot, but I get the error message:
"AttributeError: 'Figure' object has no attribute 'update_layout'"
The plot works without the update_layout line. I googled the error message without any luck.
Is there any other…
Alberto Rocha
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Plotly: How to color the fill between two lines based on a condition?
I want to add a fill colour between the black and blue line on my Plotly chart. I am aware this can be accomplished already with Plotly but I am not sure how to fill the chart with two colours based on conditions.
The chart with the blue background…
Patrick Miller
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Plotly: How to make a figure with multiple lines and shaded area for standard deviations?
How can I use Plotly to produce a line plot with a shaded standard deviation? I am trying to achieve something similar to seaborn.tsplot. Any help is appreciated.
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How do I control which trace plots on top with Plotly?
I'm using the Plotly python library to generate a figure with several violin plots and several filled scatter plots. No matter what order I have the individual fig.add_trace calls in my code, the violin plots always plot behind the scatter plots.…
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Plotly Table: Vertical align text in cells
How can I vertical align text inside Plotly Table cells? I can successfully set the height:
go.Figure(
data=[
go.Table(
cells=dict(
height=50,
)
)
]
)
This looks awful:
Marian Rick
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Plotly: How to set custom xticks
From plotly doc:
layout > xaxis > tickvals:
Sets the values at which ticks on this axis
appear. Only has an effect if tickmode is set to "array". Used with
ticktext.
layout > xaxis > ticktext:
Sets the text displayed at the
ticks position via…
Mithril
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Select/Copy Plotly Hovertext
Is there a way to lock hovertext in place when I click a datapoint? I would like to be able to click and HTML hyperlink in the text, or copy a key from the text into another system.
Spencer Connaughton
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Plotly: How to filter a pandas dataframe using a dropdown menu?
I have a dataframe and using plotly I want to visualise the data. I have the following code
fig = px.line(df, x="row_num", y="audienceWatchRatio", color='vid_id')
fig.show()
It's really messy, so I want a drop-down menu where the user can just…
Bryce Ramgovind
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Python: How to make shaded areas or alternating background color using plotly?
Using only these few lines of code from plot.ly will give you the plot below in a jupyter notebook:
Snippet 1:
import plotly
import cufflinks as cf
from plotly.offline import download_plotlyjs, init_notebook_mode, plot,…
vestland
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Plotly: How to toggle traces with a button similar to clicking them in legend?
I'm using python and creating standalone html files with interactive plots (no Dash). I have been able to build a plotly plot with buttons that can toggle the visibility of traces in the plot. However, this functionality removes the traces from the…
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Plotly: How to embed a fully interactive Plotly figure in Excel?
I'm trying to embed an interactive plotly (or bokeh) plot into excel.
To do this I've tried the following three things:
embed a Microsoft Web Browser UserForm into excel, following:
How do I embed a browser in an Excel VBA form?
This works and…
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Access Color from Plotly Color Scale
Is there a way in Plotly to access colormap colours at any value along its range?
I know I can access the defining colours for a colourscale from
plotly.colors.PLOTLY_SCALES["Viridis"]
but I am unable to find how to access intermediate /…
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How to make a line plot from a pandas dataframe with a long or wide format
(This is a self-answered post to help others shorten their answers to plotly questions by not having to explain how plotly best handles data of long and wide format)
I'd like to build a plotly figure based on a pandas dataframe in as few lines as…
vestland
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Plotly: How to select graph source using dropdown?
I'm trying to embed multiple, selectable graphs in a single figure using Plotly, using a dropdown figure. I followed the dropdown example from Plotly, but they only show how to change graph characteristics (like visible, or type), not the underlying…
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