Building interactive and advanced visualizations with plotly
This section introduces Plotly for creating interactive and visually rich charts that allow users to explore data dynamically. By the end of this section, you will be able to build basic line charts, bar charts, scatter plots, Gantt chart, annotations, subplots, custom buttons, dropdowns, and sliders.
Plotly is one of the most popular and open-source data visualization libraries in the Python ecosystem for creating high-quality, interactive, multi-page, web-based charts with seamless integration with other applications such as Streamlit, Dash, and Jupyter Notebook. Unlike static plotting libraries like matplotlib, Plotly offers various options such as zooming, panning, hover tooltips, dynamic selection, and real-time updates. It is widely used in exploratory data analysis, time-series analysis, machine learning, and creating interactive dashboards. That is why data professionals prefer this library. Let’s discuss...