Plotly is an easy-to-use and highly accessible library in Python which allows even developers with just basic programming ability to get up and running with complex plots and graphs. Far easier to use than competing frameworks such as Matplotlib, Plotly is especially compelling because of how easy it is to build interactivity into your visualizations. Explore relationships in your data without in-depth programming knowledge, extract insights which can be used for further analysis on your data.
One unique feature that Plotly offers is the Plotly Cloud a platform that you can use to quickly share your graphs and plots. In addition, Plotly offers a variety of interesting charts out-of-the-box not available with other visualization libraries such as Gantt charts and Candlestick charts.
Here is what this course covers:
Offline and online plots: Work with plots on your local machine or share them using the Plotly Cloud
Basic charts: Build line charts, bar charts, histograms, pie charts and other basic visualizations
Time-series data: Work with time-series data using Candlestick charts
Bubble charts and maps: Visualize data in more than 2 dimensions using these charts
Funnel charts: Draw complex plots by hand-drawing shapes
3D plots: Scatter and surface plots in 3 dimensions
Gantt charts: Visualize tasks with start and complete times
Animations: Add motion to your graphs
This course is built around hands on demos, built to explicitly explain concepts underpinning each topic. Real-world datasets are used where applicable.
Software used: Python 3, Plotly Python APIs
