Enter the world of Plotly! In this first chapter, you’ll learn different ways to create plots and receive an introduction to univariate plots. You’ll then build several popular plot types, including box plots and histograms, and discover how to style them using the Plotly color options.

Plotly and the Plotly Figure

Playing with a Plotly Figure

Fixing a Plotly figure

Univariate visualizations

Student scores bar graph

Box plot of company revenues

Histogram of company revenues

Customizing color

What color did we use?

Coloring student scores bar graph

Side-by-side revenue box plots with color

Revenue histogram with stacked bars

Introduction to Plotly

Add to your Plotly toolkit as you explore and implement bivariate plots. Next, you’ll explore how to customize your plots to make them look amazing with annotations, hover information, legends, and custom axis titles and scales.

Bivariate visualizations

Building a scatterplot with specific colors

Building a line plot

Bird feature correlations

Customizing hover information and legends

GDP vs. life expectancy legend

Enhancing our GDP plot

Adding annotations

Annotating your savings

A happier histogram plot

Editing plot axes

The log-scale parameter

Analyzing basketball stats

Styling scientific research

Customizing Plots

Take your Plotly graphs to the next level with more advanced customizations. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to layer multiple interactive chart types in the same plot (such as a bar chart with a line chart over the top). You'll then create time-series selectors, such as year to date (YTD), to help you zoom in and out of your line charts.

Subplots

Revenue box subplots

Revenue histogram subplots

Layering multiple plots

Monthly temperatures layered

Add Max Temperatures

Time buttons

A time button dictionary

Time buttons on our rainfall graph

Finance line chart with custom time buttons

Advanced Customization

In this final chapter, you'll harness Plotly's advanced user interactivity as you learn how to create buttons, dropdowns, and sliders that change everything from graph types to annotations and much more. Take your Plotly skills to the next level and build truly interactive user experiences.

Custom buttons

Rainfall plot type buttons

Changing annotations with buttons

Dropdowns

Growth locations dropdown

Housing prices dropdown

Sliders

Hiding a slider trace

Rainfall by season slider

What you learned

Advanced Interactivity

Penguins data

Revenue data

AAPL data

World Bank population data

Sydney temperature data

Rainfall data

Monthly sales

Revenue Data Extended

Producing high-quality, interactive visualizations historically required complex code, extensive time, and effort. Not anymore. In this course, you’ll learn how to create publication-quality graphs, harnessing the power of JavaScript, without leaving the comfort of the Python programming language we all love. You’ll create, style, and customize a variety of stunning, interactive graphs—using datasets ranging from stock prices to basketball team stats, and even penguin beak sizes! Using the Plotly charting library, you’ll also learn to customize interactivity such as hover information, range sliders, custom buttons, and even drop-downs that reactively change the visualization. Are you ready to level up your data visualization skills?

Intermediate Python

Learn how to create interactive data visualizations in Python with dropdowns, range sliders, customer buttons and more using the Plotly charting library.

Introduction to Data Visualization with Plotly in Python

Create interactive data visualizations in Python using Plotly.

Visualización de datos con Plotly y Dash

A time button dictionary

Introduction to Data Visualization with Plotly in Python

Ejercicio interactivo práctico