Chapter 9

Plotly for Data Visualization

“Data Visualization Using Python”

Raj Kumar Samanta
Ref: Seema Acharya, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.
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► Plotly Python Package

► Scatter Plot
► Bar Plot
► Pie Chart
► Word Cloud
► Treemap
► Choropleth Chart
► Area Chart
► Bubble Chart
► Gantt Chart
► Boxplot
► Violin plot
► Histogram
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Plotly is Python’s graphing open-source library that makes interactive and publication-
ready visualizations. The visualizations and graphs thus created, can be viewed both
offline and online. It supports various types of plots like line charts, scatter plots,
histograms, and box plots.
Plotly has three main modules:
► plotly.plotly
► potly.graph_objs
► plotly.tools
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Scatter Plot
To plot a scatter plot
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Scatter Plot
To plot a scatter plot
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Bar Plot
To plot a Bar plot
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Bar Plot
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Pie Chart
To plot a Pie Chart
► Import the required Python libraries.
► Read in data from the csv, “iris.csv” into the Pandas DataFrame, “iris”.
► Group the data from the DataFrame, “iris” by “species”.
► Import “plotly.graph_objs” module and set “go” as the alias for it.
► Create the trace using the Pie function.
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Pie Chart
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Word Cloud
To plot a word cloud
► Import the required Python libraries.
► import pandas as pd
► Read in data from the Excel, “ShakespearSonnet.xlsx” into the Pandas
DataFrame, “df”.
► Import the required Python libraries, “WordCloud” and “matplotlib.pyplot”. Set
the alias for “matplotlib. pyplot” as “plt”.
► text=" ".join(Sonnet_words for Sonnet_words in df.Sonnet_words)
► word_cloud = WordCloud(collocations = False, background_color =
'White').generate(text)
plt.imshow(word_cloud, interpolation='bilinear')
plt.axis('off')
plt.show()
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Word Cloud
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Treemap
To plot a Treemap.
► Import the required Python library, “pandas” and set “pd” as the alias for
“pandas”.
► Read in data from the Excel, “Superstore.xlsx” into the Pandas DataFrame,
“df ”. Validate that the data have been read in correctly by printing the
first five observations from the DataFrame.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel("C:/data/Superstore.xlsx")
df.head()
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Treemap
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Choropleth Chart
To plot a Choropleth chart.
► Import Python libraries, “pandas” and “plotly.express”. Set “pd” as the
alias for Pandas and “px” as the alias for plotly.express.
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px
► Import data from “Us_grexports.txt” into DataFrame, “data”.
data = pd.read_csv('c:/data/Us_agr_exports.txt')
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Choropleth Chart
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Area Chart
To plot an Area chart.
► Import the required Python library, “pandas”. Set “pd” as the alias for it.
Import “plotly.express” and set “px” as the alias for it.
► Read in data from the csv, “iris.csv” into the Pandas DataFrame, “df ”.
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px
df = pd.read_csv("c:/data/iris.csv", names=["sepal_length", "sepal_
width", "petal_length", "petal_width", "species"])
print(df.head())
► Plot the area chart using data from the DataFrame, “df ”.
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Area Chart
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Bubble Chart
To plot a Bubble chart.
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.scatter(df.query("year==2007"), x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp",
size="pop", color="continent",
hover_name="country", log_x=True, size_max=60)
fig.show()
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Bubble Chart
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Gantt Chart
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Gantt Chart
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Boxplot
To plot a boxplot.
► Import plotly.express and set the alias to “px”.
► Import numpy and set the alias to “np”.
► Create the data.
► Plot the boxplot using px.box(). Use “y” parameter to plot a vertical
boxplot and “x” parameter to plot a horizontal boxplot.
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Boxplot
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Violin plot
To plot a Violin plot.
► Import plotly.express and set the alias to “px”.
► Import numpy and set the alias to “np”.
► Create the data.
► Plot the violin plot using px.violin(). Use “y” parameter to plot a vertical
violin plot and “x” parameter to plot a horizontal violin plot.
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Violin plot
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Histogram
To plot a Histogram plot.
► Import plotly.express and set the alias to “px”.
► Import Pandas and set the alias to “pd”.
► Read in the data from “OlympicAthletes.xlsx” into the DataFrame, “df ”.
► Plot the histogram plot using px.histogram().
► Set x to the “Age” column and color to “Total Medals”.
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Histogram
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