From the course: Data Visualizations with Plotly
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What is Plotly? - Plotly Tutorial
From the course: Data Visualizations with Plotly
What is Plotly?
- [Instructor] So what exactly is Plotly for Python? Plotly for Python is an open-source, free data visualization library. It's built on top of Plotly,js, which itself is built on top of D3.JS in stack.gl. That is to say Plotly takes full advantage of best in class data visualizations and makes it accessible and easy to implement with Python. Plotly is like matplotlib, except that the visuals you produce are richer and highly interactive. Plotly offers over 40 different types of visualizations. This includes statistical charts like box plots, histograms and displots. There's financial charts, like the candlestick chart. You'll find plenty of mapping plots to get the most out of your geographic data. There's the highly interactive sunburst chart in the Sankey diagram, There's even stunning 3D charts at your fingertips. And of course, all the basics like bar charts, line charts and scatter plots can be generated with minimal…
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