From the course: Data Visualizations with Plotly
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Plotly Express vs Go - Plotly Tutorial
From the course: Data Visualizations with Plotly
Plotly Express vs Go
- [Instructor] While Plotly has long been known for its best-in-class visualization capabilities, historically, it also came with a bit of a learning curve. If you were taking this course in 2018, for instance, it would look quite a bit different. Plotly released what is called Plotly Express in 2019, and this new high level API vastly simplified the process to create the coolest visuals Plotly has to offer. Throughout this course, we'll focus on using Plotly Express, but there are still use cases when you'll want to leverage the older framework, known as graph objects, commonly imported as go. Let's import the two and get started in understanding their differences. We'll proceed with the iris data. This is a common sample dataset used in machine learning containing measurements for different species of iris. As you can see with this code here, it's incredibly simple to generate a scatterplot using Plotly Express. We need to…
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