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Styling scientific research

Now that you have mastered customizing your plots, it is time to let your creative energy flow!

In this exercise, you are continuing your work with the Antarctic research team to assist them in exploring and understanding the penguin data they have collected.

They have asked you to help them understand how the flipper length differs between species. Time is short, so you think a quick plotly.express visualization would do. However, they also want some specific customizations for the axes' titles.

You have available a penguins DataFrame.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Data Visualization with Plotly in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a plotly bar chart from the penguins DataFrame with the title "Flipper Length (mm) by Species", the x-axis as "spec", the y-axis as "av_flip_length".
  • Use the .update_layout() method to change the xaxis and yaxis text to "Species" and "Average Flipper Length (mm)" respectively.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the plot
fig = px.bar(penguins, x="____", y="____", title="____", color="spec")

# Change the axis titles
fig.update_layout(
    xaxis=dict(title=dict(text="____")),
    yaxis=dict(title=dict(text="____"))
)

# Show the plot
fig.show()
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