How to make parallel coordinates plots in Python with Plotly.
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import plotly.express as px df = px.data.iris() fig = px.parallel_coordinates(df, color="species_id", labels={"species_id": "Species", "sepal_width": "Sepal Width", "sepal_length": "Sepal Length", "petal_width": "Petal Width", "petal_length": "Petal Length", }, color_continuous_scale=px.colors.diverging.Tealrose, color_continuous_midpoint=2) fig.show()
Parallel coordinates are richly interactive by default. Drag the lines along the axes to filter regions.
Select the columns to be represented with the dimensions
parameter.
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import plotly.express as px df = px.data.iris() fig = px.parallel_coordinates(df, color="species_id", dimensions=['sepal_width', 'sepal_length', 'petal_width', 'petal_length'], color_continuous_scale=px.colors.diverging.Tealrose, color_continuous_midpoint=2) fig.show()Parallel Coordinates Chart with go.Parcoords¶
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import plotly.graph_objects as go fig = go.Figure(data= go.Parcoords( line_color='blue', dimensions = list([ dict(range = [1,5], constraintrange = [1,2], # change this range by dragging the pink line label = 'A', values = [1,4]), dict(range = [1.5,5], tickvals = [1.5,3,4.5], label = 'B', values = [3,1.5]), dict(range = [1,5], tickvals = [1,2,4,5], label = 'C', values = [2,4], ticktext = ['text 1', 'text 2', 'text 3', 'text 4']), dict(range = [1,5], label = 'D', values = [4,2]) ]) ) ) fig.show()
Parallel coordinates are richly interactive by default. Drag the lines along the axes to filter regions and drag the axis names across the plot to rearrange variables.
Basic Parallel Coordinates Plot¶In [4]:
import plotly.graph_objects as go import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcdunbar/datasets/master/iris.csv") fig = go.Figure(data= go.Parcoords( line = dict(color = df['species_id'], colorscale = [[0,'purple'],[0.5,'lightseagreen'],[1,'gold']]), dimensions = list([ dict(range = [0,8], constraintrange = [4,8], label = 'Sepal Length', values = df['sepal_length']), dict(range = [0,8], label = 'Sepal Width', values = df['sepal_width']), dict(range = [0,8], label = 'Petal Length', values = df['petal_length']), dict(range = [0,8], label = 'Petal Width', values = df['petal_width']) ]) ) ) fig.update_layout( plot_bgcolor = 'white', paper_bgcolor = 'white' ) fig.show()Advanced Parallel Coordinates Plot¶
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import plotly.graph_objects as go import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcdunbar/datasets/master/parcoords_data.csv") fig = go.Figure(data= go.Parcoords( line = dict(color = df['colorVal'], colorscale = 'Electric', showscale = True, cmin = -4000, cmax = -100), dimensions = list([ dict(range = [32000,227900], constraintrange = [100000,150000], label = "Block Height", values = df['blockHeight']), dict(range = [0,700000], label = 'Block Width', values = df['blockWidth']), dict(tickvals = [0,0.5,1,2,3], ticktext = ['A','AB','B','Y','Z'], label = 'Cyclinder Material', values = df['cycMaterial']), dict(range = [-1,4], tickvals = [0,1,2,3], label = 'Block Material', values = df['blockMaterial']), dict(range = [134,3154], visible = True, label = 'Total Weight', values = df['totalWeight']), dict(range = [9,19984], label = 'Assembly Penalty Wt', values = df['assemblyPW']), dict(range = [49000,568000], label = 'Height st Width', values = df['HstW'])]) ) ) fig.show()Unselected Line Color and Opacity¶
New in 5.10
The color and opacity of unselected lines can be set with unselected
. By setting opacity=0
, you can hide the unselected lines. Here, we set the color to lightgray
and the opacity to 0.5
.
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import plotly.graph_objects as go fig = go.Figure(data= go.Parcoords( line_color='blue', dimensions = list([ dict(range = [1,5], constraintrange = [1,2], # change this range by dragging the pink line label = 'A', values = [1,4]), dict(range = [1.5,5], tickvals = [1.5,3,4.5], label = 'B', values = [3,1.5]), dict(range = [1,5], tickvals = [1,2,4,5], label = 'C', values = [2,4], ticktext = ['text 1', 'text 2', 'text 3', 'text 4']), dict(range = [1,5], label = 'D', values = [4,2]) ]), unselected = dict(line = dict(color = 'green', opacity = 0.5)) ) ) fig.show()What About Dash?¶
Dash is an open-source framework for building analytical applications, with no Javascript required, and it is tightly integrated with the Plotly graphing library.
Learn about how to install Dash at https://dash.plot.ly/installation.
Everywhere in this page that you see fig.show()
, you can display the same figure in a Dash application by passing it to the figure
argument of the Graph
component from the built-in dash_core_components
package like this:
import plotly.graph_objects as go # or plotly.express as px fig = go.Figure() # or any Plotly Express function e.g. px.bar(...) # fig.add_trace( ... ) # fig.update_layout( ... ) from dash import Dash, dcc, html app = Dash() app.layout = html.Div([ dcc.Graph(figure=fig) ]) app.run(debug=True, use_reloader=False) # Turn off reloader if inside Jupyter
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