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Customizing charts with Plot - Observable Tutorial
From the course: Data Analytics with Observable
Customizing charts with Plot
- [Instructor] Plot is great for a bunch of reasons, one of which is what we've already seen. I can add a plot chart just by using this dropdown. I don't have to write code, right? Or I can use the Chart cell, generate a nice looking chart, and then export the JavaScript and it creates this Plot code. And the code is pretty easy to tweak. You just need to learn what you can and can't do. And that's where the Observable documentation comes in. There are all kinds of resources to help you know what you can do and the syntax for doing it. And you can start here. So visuals are made up of marks, scales, transforms, facets, projections, and more. And if you click into any of these, you get rich documentation of what the term means and how to work with it. But it's always the easiest to work from an example. So here we are back at our original notebook. I've forked it, I'm calling it Customize charts with Plot now. And…
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