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Basic Plotly

Basic Plotly - Python Tutorial

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Basic Plotly

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So Plotly is the final visualization package we're going to be looking at in this course. Plotly was founded in 2012 in Montreal, Canada, and the Python version, Plotly.py, is essentially a wrapper around Plotly.js, which is a JavaScript library for visualization. This is similar to Bokeh, which also relies on JavaScript as a way of providing interactivity for your visualizations and allow you to zoom in and pan and have tooltips and so on. It supports a huge range of interactive visualizations, interactive graphs across a large number of different applications and fields. It's integrated into Dask, which is a framework for building web-based analytic applications. So depending on exactly what you're planning on doing, if you're trying to integrate this into a web application, for example, or just a regular website, Plotly might be a good choice for you. So here we have a screenshot of the official gallery, which again highlights some of the variety of visualizations they're able to…

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