Plotly Charts Documentation
  • Welcome
  • Getting Started
    • ♟️Thinking in Plotly
    • 🚀Quick Start
    • 🎮Demo & Playground
    • ✨Unique Features
  • Creating Charts
    • Chart Types
      • Bar Charts
        • How to build a floating bar chart
      • Line & Area
        • How to add time-series data
      • Scatter & Bubble
      • Pie & Donut
    • Traces Customization
      • Marker (Bar) Style
        • How to fill with pattern
      • Text & Labels
        • How to display values on chart
        • How to set name for data series
      • Hover Tooltip
    • Chart Components
      • Axis & Grids
        • How to add axis title
        • How to
      • Legend
      • Annotations
      • Shapes
    • Configuration & Layout
      • Configuration
      • Responsive Settings
  • User Interactions
    • Chart Events
      • How to get hovered item's data
      • How to use selecting chart item
    • Chart Interacting Options
      • How to make chart static
      • How to let users edit the chart
  • Advance Uses
    • Tips and Tricks
      • How to change the chart type dynamically?
      • How to have dynamic number of traces
    • User Interaction
      • How to change hover tooltip information
  • Additional Resources
    • Elements Fields Reference
      • Plotter
        • Linking Modules
        • Chart Layout
        • Multiple Traces
        • Quick Customizations
        • Event Data
        • Plotter Fields
      • Traces
        • Overview
        • Traces Mutual Options
          • Basic Options (Name, Opacity, Orientation)
          • Text (Label) Options
          • Hover Tooltip Options
          • Calendar Options
        • Basic Charts
          • Bar
          • Scatter (Line, Area, Bubble)
          • Pie & Donut
          • Funnel Area
        • Business & Financial Charts
          • Indicator (Gauge, Bullet, Delta, KPI)
          • Funnel
          • Waterfall
          • Candlestick & OHLC
        • Statistical Charts
          • Histogram
          • Box & Violin
          • Heatmap
        • Geographical Charts
          • Map Choropleth
          • Map Scatter (Line, Bubble)
        • Polar Charts
          • Scatter Polar (Radar)
          • Bar Polar
        • Relational Charts
          • Sunburst
          • Treemap
          • Sankey
      • Options
        • Axis
        • Configuration
        • Legend
        • Map Layout
        • Color Bar
        • List Formatting
        • Annotations
        • Shapes
    • Choose Correct Chart Type
    • Formatting Cheat Sheet
  • Help & FAQ
    • ⁉️FAQ
    • 📧Support Channels
    • ⏱️Version History
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  • Comparisons
  • Trends
  • Part-to-whole
  • Correlations
  • Connections
  • Geospatial

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  1. Additional Resources

Choose Correct Chart Type

Start by identifying the purpose of the visualization and then choose the appropriate chart type.

Comparisons

Trends

Part-to-whole

Correlations

Connections

Geospatial

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