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Elias Dabbas is an online marketing and data science practitioner. He produces open-source software for building dashboards, data apps, as well as software for online marketing, with a focus on SEO, SEM, crawling, and text analysis.
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Understanding the Figure object

Plotly is a fully fledged data visualization system, which ships with more than 50 types of charts out of the box (for example, bar charts, scatter plots, and histograms). It supports 2D and 3D visualizations, ternary plots, maps, and more. The available options for customizing almost any aspect of your charts are very detailed and can be overwhelming. This, as they say, is a good problem to have!

We use charts to uncover certain characteristics of our data or the relationships between different datasets. However, pure data visualization would be meaningless if we didn't know what is being visualized. Imagine a rectangle that has a bunch of dots on it with clear patterns. It would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the x axis represented, for example. If you have different shapes and colors in a plot, then they would mean nothing without a legend. Usually, titles and annotations are also needed to give us context around the data...

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