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### Plotly Express

Plotly Express is the easy-to-use, high-level interface to Plotly, which [operates on a variety of types of data](/python/px-arguments/) and produces [easy-to-style figures](/python/styling-plotly-express/). Every Plotly Express function returns a `graph_objects.Figure` object whose `data` and `layout` has been pre-populated according to the provided arguments.

> **Note**: Plotly Express was previously its own separately-installed `plotly_express` package but is now part of `plotly` and importable via `import plotly.express as px`.

This notebook demonstrates various `plotly.express` features. [Reference documentation](https://plotly.com/python-api-reference/plotly.express.html) is also available, as well as a [tutorial on input argument types](/python/px-arguments) and one on how to [style figures made with Plotly Express](/python/styling-plotly-express/).

You can also read our original [Medium announcement article](https://medium.com/@plotlygraphs/introducing-plotly-express-808df010143d) for more information on this library.

#### A single import, with built-in datasets

```python
import plotly.express as px
print(px.data.iris.__doc__)
px.data.iris().head()
```

#### Scatter and Line plots

Refer to the main [scatter and line plot page](/python/line-and-scatter/) for full documentation.

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species", marginal_y="rug", marginal_x="histogram")
fig
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species", marginal_y="violin",
           marginal_x="box", trendline="ols")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
df["e"] = df["sepal_width"]/100
fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species", error_x="e", error_y="e")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="total_bill", y="tip", facet_row="time", facet_col="day", color="smoker", trendline="ols",
          category_orders={"day": ["Thur", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"], "time": ["Lunch", "Dinner"]})
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter_matrix(df)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter_matrix(df, dimensions=["sepal_width", "sepal_length", "petal_width", "petal_length"], color="species")
fig.show()
```

```python
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()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.parallel_categories(df, color="size", color_continuous_scale=px.colors.sequential.Inferno)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="total_bill", y="tip", color="size", facet_col="sex",
           color_continuous_scale=px.colors.sequential.Viridis, render_mode="webgl")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.scatter(df.query("year==2007"), x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp", size="pop", color="continent",
           hover_name="country", log_x=True, size_max=60)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.scatter(df, x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp", animation_frame="year", animation_group="country",
           size="pop", color="continent", hover_name="country", facet_col="continent",
           log_x=True, size_max=45, range_x=[100,100000], range_y=[25,90])
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.line(df, x="year", y="lifeExp", color="continent", line_group="country", hover_name="country",
        line_shape="spline", render_mode="svg")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.area(df, x="year", y="pop", color="continent", line_group="country")
fig.show()
```

#### Visualize Distributions

Refer to the main [statistical graphs page](/python/statistical-charts/) for full documentation.

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.density_contour(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.density_contour(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species", marginal_x="rug", marginal_y="histogram")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.density_heatmap(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", marginal_x="rug", marginal_y="histogram")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.bar(df, x="sex", y="total_bill", color="smoker", barmode="group")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.bar(df, x="sex", y="total_bill", color="smoker", barmode="group", facet_row="time", facet_col="day",
       category_orders={"day": ["Thur", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"], "time": ["Lunch", "Dinner"]})
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.histogram(df, x="total_bill", y="tip", color="sex", marginal="rug", hover_data=df.columns)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.histogram(df, x="sex", y="tip", histfunc="avg", color="smoker", barmode="group",
             facet_row="time", facet_col="day", category_orders={"day": ["Thur", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"],
                                                                "time": ["Lunch", "Dinner"]})
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.strip(df, x="total_bill", y="time", orientation="h", color="smoker")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.box(df, x="day", y="total_bill", color="smoker", notched=True)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.tips()
fig = px.violin(df, y="tip", x="smoker", color="sex", box=True, points="all", hover_data=df.columns)
fig.show()
```

#### Ternary Coordinates

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.election()
fig = px.scatter_ternary(df, a="Joly", b="Coderre", c="Bergeron", color="winner", size="total", hover_name="district",
                   size_max=15, color_discrete_map = {"Joly": "blue", "Bergeron": "green", "Coderre":"red"} )
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.election()
fig = px.line_ternary(df, a="Joly", b="Coderre", c="Bergeron", color="winner", line_dash="winner")
fig.show()
```

### Images

```python
import plotly.express as px
import numpy as np
img_rgb = np.array([[[255, 0, 0], [0, 255, 0], [0, 0, 255]],
                    [[0, 255, 0], [0, 0, 255], [255, 0, 0]]
                   ], dtype=np.uint8)
fig = px.imshow(img_rgb)
fig.show()
```

#### 3D Coordinates

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.election()
fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x="Joly", y="Coderre", z="Bergeron", color="winner", size="total", hover_name="district",
                  symbol="result", color_discrete_map = {"Joly": "blue", "Bergeron": "green", "Coderre":"red"})
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.election()
fig = px.line_3d(df, x="Joly", y="Coderre", z="Bergeron", color="winner", line_dash="winner")
fig.show()
```

#### Polar Coordinates

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.wind()
fig = px.scatter_polar(df, r="frequency", theta="direction", color="strength", symbol="strength",
            color_discrete_sequence=px.colors.sequential.Plasma_r)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.wind()
fig = px.line_polar(df, r="frequency", theta="direction", color="strength", line_close=True,
            color_discrete_sequence=px.colors.sequential.Plasma_r)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.wind()
fig = px.bar_polar(df, r="frequency", theta="direction", color="strength", template="plotly_dark",
            color_discrete_sequence= px.colors.sequential.Plasma_r)
fig.show()
```

#### Maps

```python
import plotly.express as px
px.set_mapbox_access_token(open(".mapbox_token").read())
df = px.data.carshare()
fig = px.scatter_mapbox(df, lat="centroid_lat", lon="centroid_lon",     color="peak_hour", size="car_hours",
                  color_continuous_scale=px.colors.cyclical.IceFire, size_max=15, zoom=10)
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
px.set_mapbox_access_token(open(".mapbox_token").read())
df = px.data.carshare()
fig = px.line_mapbox(df, lat="centroid_lat", lon="centroid_lon", color="peak_hour")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.scatter_geo(df, locations="iso_alpha", color="continent", hover_name="country", size="pop",
               animation_frame="year", projection="natural earth")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.line_geo(df.query("year==2007"), locations="iso_alpha", color="continent", projection="orthographic")
fig.show()
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.gapminder()
fig = px.choropleth(df, locations="iso_alpha", color="lifeExp", hover_name="country", animation_frame="year", range_color=[20,80])
fig.show()
```