What problem does it solve?
Plotly turns raw numeric and categorical data into interactive, zoomable, and explorable visualizations so analysts and developers can explore patterns, present findings, and embed rich charts in web dashboards without building custom front-end code.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Interactive Charts: Hover tooltips, pan/zoom, selection, animations, and linked interactions for exploratory analysis.
- Flexible APIs: Quick creation with Plotly Express for tidy DataFrames and fine-grained control with graph_objects for complex, multi-trace figures.
- Layouts & Export: Subplots, templates, annotations, and export to interactive HTML or static images (via kaleido) for reports and presentations.
- Web Integration: Embed figures in Dash apps or export div snippets for Jinja2 templates to build dashboards and web visualizations.
- Use Cases: Exploratory data analysis, interactive scientific figures, time-series dashboards, geospatial mapping, and presentation-ready web embeds.
Quick Start
Create an interactive scatter plot from the pandas DataFrame df with hover tooltips for the label column, a rangeslider on the x-axis, and save it as an interactive HTML file named chart.html.