Histogram2d

Overview

The histogram2d trace type is used to create 2D histograms, where data is binned along both the x and y axes, producing a heatmap-like visualization. This allows you to visualize the relationship between two numerical variables by counting how many data points fall into each bin.

You can customize the binning along both axes, as well as the colorscale and aggregation method, to better represent your data.

Common Uses

Joint Distributions: Visualizing the relationship between two variables.
Density Plots: Showing the density of data points across two dimensions.
Statistical Analysis: Identifying patterns, correlations, or anomalies in bivariate data.

Check out the Attributes for the full set of configuration options

Examples

Common Configurations

Simple 2D Histogram Plot2D Histogram with Custom Bins2D Histogram with Density Mode

Here's a simple histogram2d plot showing how data is distributed across two dimensions:

You can copy this code below to create this chart in your project:

models:
  - name: histogram2d-data
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        x,y
        1,2
        2,3
        3,4
        2,2
        1,3
        3,2
        4,4
        5,6
        4,2
traces:
  - name: Simple 2D Histogram Plot
    model: ref(histogram2d-data)
    props:
      type: histogram2d
      x: ?{x}
      y: ?{y}
      colorscale: "Viridis"
charts:
  - name: Simple 2D Histogram Chart
    traces:
      - ref(Simple 2D Histogram Plot)
    layout:
      title:
        text: Simple 2D Histogram<br><sub>Data Distribution Across Two Dimensions</sub>
      xaxis:
        title:
          text: "X Axis"
      yaxis:
        title:
          text: "Y Axis"

This example demonstrates a histogram2d plot with custom binning along the x and y axes:

Here's the code:

models:
  - name: histogram2d-data-bins
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        x,y
        1,5
        2,6
        3,7
        2,4
        1,5
        3,3
        4,8
        5,9
        4,4
traces:
  - name: 2D Histogram with Custom Bins
    model: ref(histogram2d-data-bins)
    props:
      type: histogram2d
      x: ?{x}
      y: ?{y}
      xbins:
        size: 1
      ybins:
        size: 1
      colorscale: "Blues"
charts:
  - name: 2D Histogram with Custom Bins
    traces:
      - ref(2D Histogram with Custom Bins)
    layout:
      title:
        text: 2D Histogram with Custom Bins<br><sub>Custom Binning Along X and Y Axes</sub>
      xaxis:
        title:
          text: "X Axis"
      yaxis:
        title:
          text: "Y Axis"

Here's a histogram2d plot that uses density mode, displaying the relative density of data points across the grid:

Here's the code:

models:
  - name: histogram2d-data-density
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        x,y
        1,1
        2,2
        3,3
        2,1
        3,2
        4,3
        5,4
        4,1
        5,2
traces:
  - name: 2D Histogram with Density Mode
    model: ref(histogram2d-data-density)
    props:
      type: histogram2d
      x: ?{x}
      y: ?{y}
      histnorm: "density"
      colorscale: "Jet"
charts:
  - name: 2D Histogram with Density Mode
    traces:
      - ref(2D Histogram with Density Mode)
    layout:
      title:
        text: 2D Histogram with Density Mode<br><sub>Density Distribution of Data</sub>
      xaxis:
        title:
          text: "X Axis"
      yaxis:
        title:
          text: "Y Axis"

Attributes

These attributes apply to traces where trace.props.type is set to histogram2d. You would configure these attributes on the trace with the trace.props object.

autobinx: 'boolean' Obsolete: since v1.42 each bin attribute is auto-determined separately and autobinx is not needed. However, we accept autobinx: true or false and will update xbins accordingly before deleting autobinx from the trace. 

autobiny: 'boolean' Obsolete: since v1.42 each bin attribute is auto-determined separately and autobiny is not needed. However, we accept autobiny: true or false and will update ybins accordingly before deleting autobiny from the trace. 

autocolorscale: 'boolean' Determines whether the colorscale is a default palette (autocolorscale: true) or the palette determined by colorscale. In case colorscale is unspecified or autocolorscale is true, the default palette will be chosen according to whether numbers in the color array are all positive, all negative or mixed. 

bingroup: 'string' Set the xbingroup and ybingroup default prefix For example, setting a bingroup of "1" on two histogram2d traces will make them their x-bins and y-bins match separately. 

coloraxis: 'subplotid' Sets a reference to a shared color axis. References to these shared color axes are "coloraxis", "coloraxis2", "coloraxis3", etc. Settings for these shared color axes are set in the layout, under layout.coloraxis, layout.coloraxis2, etc. Note that multiple color scales can be linked to the same color axis. 

colorbar:
  bgcolor: 'color' Sets the color of padded area. 

  bordercolor: 'color' Sets the axis line color. 

  borderwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the width (in px) or the border enclosing this color bar. 

  dtick: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the step in-between ticks on this axis. Use with tick0. Must be a positive number, or special strings available to "log" and "date" axes. If the axis type is "log", then ticks are set every 10^(n"dtick) where n is the tick number. For example, to set a tick mark at 1, 10, 100, 1000, ... set dtick to 1. To set tick marks at 1, 100, 10000, ... set dtick to 2. To set tick marks at 1, 5, 25, 125, 625, 3125, ... set dtick to log_10(5), or 0.69897000433. "log" has several special values; "L", where f is a positive number, gives ticks linearly spaced in value (but not position). For example tick0 = 0.1, dtick = "L0.5" will put ticks at 0.1, 0.6, 1.1, 1.6 etc. To show powers of 10 plus small digits between, use "D1" (all digits) or "D2" (only 2 and 5). tick0 is ignored for "D1" and "D2". If the axis type is "date", then you must convert the time to milliseconds. For example, to set the interval between ticks to one day, set dtick to 86400000.0. "date" also has special values "M" gives ticks spaced by a number of months. n must be a positive integer. To set ticks on the 15th of every third month, set tick0 to "2000-01-15" and dtick to "M3". To set ticks every 4 years, set dtick to "M48" 

  exponentformat: 'enumerated , one of ( "none" | "e" | "e" | "power" | "si" | "b"
    )' Determines a formatting rule for the tick exponents. For example, consider the number 1,000,000,000. If "none", it appears as 1,000,000,000. If "e", 1e+9. If "E", 1E+9. If "power", 1x10^9 (with 9 in a super script). If "SI", 1G. If "B", 1B. 

  len: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the length of the color bar This measure excludes the padding of both ends. That is, the color bar length is this length minus the padding on both ends. 

  lenmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "fraction" | "pixels" )' Determines whether this color bar's length (i.e. the measure in the color variation direction) is set in units of plot "fraction" or in "pixels. Use len to set the value. 

  minexponent: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Hide SI prefix for 10^n if |n| is below this number. This only has an effect when tickformat is "SI" or "B". 

  nticks: 'integer greater than or equal to 0' Specifies the maximum number of ticks for the particular axis. The actual number of ticks will be chosen automatically to be less than or equal to nticks. Has an effect only if tickmode is set to "auto". 

  orientation: 'enumerated , one of ( "h" | "v" )' Sets the orientation of the colorbar. 

  outlinecolor: 'color' Sets the axis line color. 

  outlinewidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the width (in px) of the axis line. 

  separatethousands: 'boolean' If "true", even 4-digit integers are separated 

  showexponent: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' If "all", all exponents are shown besides their significands. If "first", only the exponent of the first tick is shown. If "last", only the exponent of the last tick is shown. If "none", no exponents appear. 

  showticklabels: 'boolean' Determines whether or not the tick labels are drawn. 

  showtickprefix: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' If "all", all tick labels are displayed with a prefix. If "first", only the first tick is displayed with a prefix. If "last", only the last tick is displayed with a suffix. If "none", tick prefixes are hidden. 

  showticksuffix: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' Same as showtickprefix but for tick suffixes. 

  thickness: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the thickness of the color bar This measure excludes the size of the padding, ticks and labels. 

  thicknessmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "fraction" | "pixels" )' Determines whether this color bar's thickness (i.e. the measure in the constant color direction) is set in units of plot "fraction" or in "pixels". Use thickness to set the value. 

  tick0: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the placement of the first tick on this axis. Use with dtick. If the axis type is "log", then you must take the log of your starting tick (e.g. to set the starting tick to 100, set the tick0 to 2) except when dtick="L" (see dtick for more info). If the axis type is "date", it should be a date string, like date data. If the axis type is "category", it should be a number, using the scale where each category is assigned a serial number from zero in the order it appears. 

  tickangle: 'angle' Sets the angle of the tick labels with respect to the horizontal. For example, a tickangle of -90 draws the tick labels vertically. 

  tickcolor: 'color' Sets the tick color. 

  tickfont:
    color: color
    family: 'string' HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman". 

    size: number greater than or equal to 1
  tickformat: 'string' Sets the tick label formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format. And for dates see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format. We add two items to d3's date formatter: "%h" for half of the year as a decimal number as well as "%{n}f" for fractional seconds with n digits. For example, "2016-10-13 09:15:23.456" with tickformat "%H~%M~%S.%2f" would display "09~15~23.46" 

  tickformatstops:
    dtickrange: 'array' range ["min", "max"], where "min", "max" - dtick values which describe some zoom level, it is possible to omit "min" or "max" value by passing "null" 

    enabled: 'boolean' Determines whether or not this stop is used. If false, this stop is ignored even within its dtickrange. 

    name: 'string' When used in a template, named items are created in the output figure in addition to any items the figure already has in this array. You can modify these items in the output figure by making your own item with templateitemname matching this name alongside your modifications (including visible: false or enabled: false to hide it). Has no effect outside of a template. 

    templateitemname: 'string' Used to refer to a named item in this array in the template. Named items from the template will be created even without a matching item in the input figure, but you can modify one by making an item with templateitemname matching its name, alongside your modifications (including visible: false or enabled: false to hide it). If there is no template or no matching item, this item will be hidden unless you explicitly show it with visible: true. 

    value: 'string' string - dtickformat for described zoom level, the same as "tickformat" 

  ticklabeloverflow: 'enumerated , one of ( "allow" | "hide past div" | "hide past
    domain" )' Determines how we handle tick labels that would overflow either the graph div or the domain of the axis. The default value for inside tick labels is "hide past domain". In other cases the default is "hide past div". 

  ticklabelposition: 'enumerated , one of ( "outside" | "inside" | "outside top" |
    "inside top" | "outside left" | "inside left" | "outside right" | "inside right"
    | "outside bottom" | "inside bottom" )' Determines where tick labels are drawn relative to the ticks. Left and right options are used when orientation is "h", top and bottom when orientation is "v". 

  ticklabelstep: 'integer greater than or equal to 1' Sets the spacing between tick labels as compared to the spacing between ticks. A value of 1 (default) means each tick gets a label. A value of 2 means shows every 2nd label. A larger value n means only every nth tick is labeled. tick0 determines which labels are shown. Not implemented for axes with type "log" or "multicategory", or when tickmode is "array". 

  ticklen: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the tick length (in px). 

  tickmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "auto" | "linear" | "array" )' Sets the tick mode for this axis. If "auto", the number of ticks is set via nticks. If "linear", the placement of the ticks is determined by a starting position tick0 and a tick step dtick ("linear" is the default value if tick0 and dtick are provided). If "array", the placement of the ticks is set via tickvals and the tick text is ticktext. ("array" is the default value if tickvals is provided). 

  tickprefix: 'string' Sets a tick label prefix. 

  ticks: 'enumerated , one of ( "outside" | "inside" | "" )' Determines whether ticks are drawn or not. If "", this axis' ticks are not drawn. If "outside" ("inside"), this axis' are drawn outside (inside) the axis lines. 

  ticksuffix: 'string' Sets a tick label suffix. 

  ticktext: 'data array' Sets the text displayed at the ticks position via tickvals. Only has an effect if tickmode is set to "array". Used with tickvals. 

  tickvals: 'data array' Sets the values at which ticks on this axis appear. Only has an effect if tickmode is set to "array". Used with ticktext. 

  tickwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the tick width (in px). 

  title:
    font:
      color: color
      family: 'string' HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman". 

      size: number greater than or equal to 1
    side: 'enumerated , one of ( "right" | "top" | "bottom" )' Determines the location of color bar's title with respect to the color bar. Defaults to "top" when orientation if "v" and defaults to "right" when orientation if "h". Note that the title's location used to be set by the now deprecated titleside attribute. 

    text: 'string' Sets the title of the color bar. Note that before the existence of title.text, the title's contents used to be defined as the title attribute itself. This behavior has been deprecated. 

  x: 'number between or equal to -2 and 3' Sets the x position of the color bar (in plot fraction). Defaults to 1.02 when orientation is "v" and 0.5 when orientation is "h". 

  xanchor: 'enumerated , one of ( "left" | "center" | "right" )' Sets this color bar's horizontal position anchor. This anchor binds the x position to the "left", "center" or "right" of the color bar. Defaults to "left" when orientation is "v" and "center" when orientation is "h". 

  xpad: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the amount of padding (in px) along the x direction. 

  y: 'number between or equal to -2 and 3' Sets the y position of the color bar (in plot fraction). Defaults to 0.5 when orientation is "v" and 1.02 when orientation is "h". 

  yanchor: 'enumerated , one of ( "top" | "middle" | "bottom" )' Sets this color bar's vertical position anchor This anchor binds the y position to the "top", "middle" or "bottom" of the color bar. Defaults to "middle" when orientation is "v" and "bottom" when orientation is "h". 

  ypad: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the amount of padding (in px) along the y direction. 

colorscale: 'colorscale' Sets the colorscale. The colorscale must be an array containing arrays mapping a normalized value to an rgb, rgba, hex, hsl, hsv, or named color string. At minimum, a mapping for the lowest (0) and highest (1) values are required. For example, [[0, 'rgb(0,0,255)'], [1, 'rgb(255,0,0)']]. To control the bounds of the colorscale in color space, use zmin and zmax. Alternatively, colorscale may be a palette name string of the following list: Blackbody,Bluered,Blues,Cividis,Earth,Electric,Greens,Greys,Hot,Jet,Picnic,Portland,Rainbow,RdBu,Reds,Viridis,YlGnBu,YlOrRd. 

customdata: 'data array' Assigns extra data each datum. This may be useful when listening to hover, click and selection events. Note that, "scatter" traces also appends customdata items in the markers DOM elements 

histfunc: 'enumerated , one of ( "count" | "sum" | "avg" | "min" | "max" )' Specifies the binning function used for this histogram trace. If "count", the histogram values are computed by counting the number of values lying inside each bin. If "sum", "avg", "min", "max", the histogram values are computed using the sum, the average, the minimum or the maximum of the values lying inside each bin respectively. 

histnorm: 'enumerated , one of ( "" | "percent" | "probability" | "density" | "probability
  density" )' Specifies the type of normalization used for this histogram trace. If "", the span of each bar corresponds to the number of occurrences (i.e. the number of data points lying inside the bins). If "percent" / "probability", the span of each bar corresponds to the percentage / fraction of occurrences with respect to the total number of sample points (here, the sum of all bin HEIGHTS equals 100% / 1). If "density", the span of each bar corresponds to the number of occurrences in a bin divided by the size of the bin interval (here, the sum of all bin AREAS equals the total number of sample points). If "probability density", the area of each bar corresponds to the probability that an event will fall into the corresponding bin (here, the sum of all bin AREAS equals 1). 

hoverinfo: 'flaglist string. any combination of "x", "y", "z", "text", "name" joined
  with a "+" or "all" or "none" or "skip".' Determines which trace information appear on hover. If none or skip are set, no information is displayed upon hovering. But, if none is set, click and hover events are still fired. 

hoverlabel:
  align: 'enumerated or array of enumerateds , one of ( "left" | "right" | "auto"
    )' Sets the horizontal alignment of the text content within hover label box. Has an effect only if the hover label text spans more two or more lines 

  bgcolor: 'color or array of colors' Sets the background color of the hover labels for this trace 

  bordercolor: 'color or array of colors' Sets the border color of the hover labels for this trace. 

  font:
    color: color or array of colors
    family: 'string or array of strings' HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman". 

    size: number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 1
  namelength: 'integer or array of integers greater than or equal to -1' Sets the default length (in number of characters) of the trace name in the hover labels for all traces. -1 shows the whole name regardless of length. 0-3 shows the first 0-3 characters, and an integer >3 will show the whole name if it is less than that many characters, but if it is longer, will truncate to namelength - 3 characters and add an ellipsis. 

hovertemplate: 'string or array of strings' Template string used for rendering the information that appear on hover box. Note that this will override hoverinfo. Variables are inserted using %{variable}, for example "y: %{y}" as well as %{xother}, {%xother}, {%_xother}, {%xother_}. When showing info for several points, "xother" will be added to those with different x positions from the first point. An underscore before or after "(x|y)other" will add a space on that side, only when this field is shown. Numbers are formatted using d3-format's syntax %{variable:d3-format}, for example "Price: %{y:$.2f}". https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format for details on the formatting syntax. Dates are formatted using d3-time-format's syntax %{variable|d3-time-format}, for example "Day: %{2019-01-01|%A}". https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format for details on the date formatting syntax. The variables available in hovertemplate are the ones emitted as event data described at this link https://plotly.com/javascript/plotlyjs-events/#event-data. Additionally, every attributes that can be specified per-point (the ones that are arrayOk: true) are available. variable z Anything contained in tag <extra> is displayed in the secondary box, for example "{fullData.name}". To hide the secondary box completely, use an empty tag <extra></extra>. 

ids: 'data array' Assigns id labels to each datum. These ids for object constancy of data points during animation. Should be an array of strings, not numbers or any other type. 

legendgroup: 'string' Sets the legend group for this trace. Traces part of the same legend group hide/show at the same time when toggling legend items. 

legendgrouptitle:
  font:
    color: color
    family: 'string' HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman". 

    size: number greater than or equal to 1
  text: 'string' Sets the title of the legend group. 

legendrank: 'number' Sets the legend rank for this trace. Items and groups with smaller ranks are presented on top/left side while with "reversed"legend.traceorder` they are on bottom/right side. The default legendrank is 1000, so that you can use ranks less than 1000 to place certain items before all unranked items, and ranks greater than 1000 to go after all unranked items. 

legendwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the width (in px or fraction) of the legend for this trace. 

marker:
  color: 'data array' Sets the aggregation data. 

meta: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Assigns extra meta information associated with this trace that can be used in various text attributes. Attributes such as trace name, graph, axis and colorbar title.text, annotation text rangeselector, updatemenues and sliders label text all support meta. To access the trace meta values in an attribute in the same trace, simply use %{meta[i]} where i is the index or key of the meta item in question. To access trace meta in layout attributes, use %{data[n[.meta[i]} where i is the index or key of the meta and n is the trace index. 

nbinsx: 'integer greater than or equal to 0' Specifies the maximum number of desired bins. This value will be used in an algorithm that will decide the optimal bin size such that the histogram best visualizes the distribution of the data. Ignored if xbins.size is provided. 

nbinsy: 'integer greater than or equal to 0' Specifies the maximum number of desired bins. This value will be used in an algorithm that will decide the optimal bin size such that the histogram best visualizes the distribution of the data. Ignored if ybins.size is provided. 

opacity: 'number between or equal to 0 and 1' Sets the opacity of the trace. 

reversescale: 'boolean' Reverses the color mapping if true. If true, zmin will correspond to the last color in the array and zmax will correspond to the first color. 

showlegend: 'boolean' Determines whether or not an item corresponding to this trace is shown in the legend. 

showscale: 'boolean' Determines whether or not a colorbar is displayed for this trace. 

textfont:
  color: color
  family: 'string' HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman". 

  size: number greater than or equal to 1
texttemplate: 'string' Template string used for rendering the information text that appear on points. Note that this will override textinfo. Variables are inserted using %{variable}, for example "y: %{y}". Numbers are formatted using d3-format's syntax %{variable:d3-format}, for example "Price: %{y:$.2f}". https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format for details on the formatting syntax. Dates are formatted using d3-time-format's syntax %{variable|d3-time-format}, for example "Day: %{2019-01-01|%A}". https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format for details on the date formatting syntax. Every attributes that can be specified per-point (the ones that are arrayOk: true) are available. variable z 

type: histogram2d
uirevision: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Controls persistence of some user-driven changes to the trace: constraintrange in parcoords traces, as well as some editable: true modifications such as name and colorbar.title. Defaults to layout.uirevision. Note that other user-driven trace attribute changes are controlled by layout attributes: trace.visible is controlled by layout.legend.uirevision, selectedpoints is controlled by layout.selectionrevision, and colorbar.(x|y) (accessible with config: {editable: true}) is controlled by layout.editrevision. Trace changes are tracked by uid, which only falls back on trace index if no uid is provided. So if your app can add/remove traces before the end of the data array, such that the same trace has a different index, you can still preserve user-driven changes if you give each trace a uid that stays with it as it moves. 

visible: 'enumerated , one of ( true | false | "legendonly" )' Determines whether or not this trace is visible. If "legendonly", the trace is not drawn, but can appear as a legend item (provided that the legend itself is visible). 

x: 'data array' Sets the sample data to be binned on the x axis. 

xaxis: 'subplotid' Sets a reference between this trace's x coordinates and a 2D cartesian x axis. If "x" (the default value), the x coordinates refer to layout.xaxis. If "x2", the x coordinates refer to layout.xaxis2, and so on. 

xbingroup: 'string' Set a group of histogram traces which will have compatible x-bin settings. Using xbingroup, histogram2d and histogram2dcontour traces (on axes of the same axis type) can have compatible x-bin settings. Note that the same xbingroup value can be used to set (1D) histogram bingroup 

xbins:
  end: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the end value for the x axis bins. The last bin may not end exactly at this value, we increment the bin edge by size from start until we reach or exceed end. Defaults to the maximum data value. Like start, for dates use a date string, and for category data end is based on the category serial numbers. 

  size: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the size of each x axis bin. Default behavior: If nbinsx is 0 or omitted, we choose a nice round bin size such that the number of bins is about the same as the typical number of samples in each bin. If nbinsx is provided, we choose a nice round bin size giving no more than that many bins. For date data, use milliseconds or "M" for months, as in axis.dtick. For category data, the number of categories to bin together (always defaults to 1).  

  start: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the starting value for the x axis bins. Defaults to the minimum data value, shifted down if necessary to make nice round values and to remove ambiguous bin edges. For example, if most of the data is integers we shift the bin edges 0.5 down, so a size of 5 would have a default start of -0.5, so it is clear that 0-4 are in the first bin, 5-9 in the second, but continuous data gets a start of 0 and bins [0,5), [5,10) etc. Dates behave similarly, and start should be a date string. For category data, start is based on the category serial numbers, and defaults to -0.5.  

xcalendar: 'enumerated , one of ( "chinese" | "coptic" | "discworld" | "ethiopian"
  | "gregorian" | "hebrew" | "islamic" | "jalali" | "julian" | "mayan" | "nanakshahi"
  | "nepali" | "persian" | "taiwan" | "thai" | "ummalqura" )' Sets the calendar system to use with x date data. 

xgap: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the horizontal gap (in pixels) between bricks. 

xhoverformat: 'string' Sets the hover text formatting rulefor x using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format. And for dates see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format. We add two items to d3's date formatter: "%h" for half of the year as a decimal number as well as "%{n}f" for fractional seconds with n digits. For example, "2016-10-13 09:15:23.456" with tickformat "%H~%M~%S.%2f" would display "09~15~23.46"By default the values are formatted using xaxis.hoverformat. 

y: 'data array' Sets the sample data to be binned on the y axis. 

yaxis: 'subplotid' Sets a reference between this trace's y coordinates and a 2D cartesian y axis. If "y" (the default value), the y coordinates refer to layout.yaxis. If "y2", the y coordinates refer to layout.yaxis2, and so on. 

ybingroup: 'string' Set a group of histogram traces which will have compatible y-bin settings. Using ybingroup, histogram2d and histogram2dcontour traces (on axes of the same axis type) can have compatible y-bin settings. Note that the same ybingroup value can be used to set (1D) histogram bingroup 

ybins:
  end: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the end value for the y axis bins. The last bin may not end exactly at this value, we increment the bin edge by size from start until we reach or exceed end. Defaults to the maximum data value. Like start, for dates use a date string, and for category data end is based on the category serial numbers. 

  size: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the size of each y axis bin. Default behavior: If nbinsy is 0 or omitted, we choose a nice round bin size such that the number of bins is about the same as the typical number of samples in each bin. If nbinsy is provided, we choose a nice round bin size giving no more than that many bins. For date data, use milliseconds or "M" for months, as in axis.dtick. For category data, the number of categories to bin together (always defaults to 1).  

  start: 'number or categorical coordinate string' Sets the starting value for the y axis bins. Defaults to the minimum data value, shifted down if necessary to make nice round values and to remove ambiguous bin edges. For example, if most of the data is integers we shift the bin edges 0.5 down, so a size of 5 would have a default start of -0.5, so it is clear that 0-4 are in the first bin, 5-9 in the second, but continuous data gets a start of 0 and bins [0,5), [5,10) etc. Dates behave similarly, and start should be a date string. For category data, start is based on the category serial numbers, and defaults to -0.5.  

ycalendar: 'enumerated , one of ( "chinese" | "coptic" | "discworld" | "ethiopian"
  | "gregorian" | "hebrew" | "islamic" | "jalali" | "julian" | "mayan" | "nanakshahi"
  | "nepali" | "persian" | "taiwan" | "thai" | "ummalqura" )' Sets the calendar system to use with y date data. 

ygap: 'number greater than or equal to 0' Sets the vertical gap (in pixels) between bricks. 

yhoverformat: 'string' Sets the hover text formatting rulefor y using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format. And for dates see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format. We add two items to d3's date formatter: "%h" for half of the year as a decimal number as well as "%{n}f" for fractional seconds with n digits. For example, "2016-10-13 09:15:23.456" with tickformat "%H~%M~%S.%2f" would display "09~15~23.46"By default the values are formatted using yaxis.hoverformat. 

z: 'data array' Sets the aggregation data. 

zauto: 'boolean' Determines whether or not the color domain is computed with respect to the input data (here in z) or the bounds set in zmin and zmax Defaults to false when zmin and zmax are set by the user. 

zhoverformat: 'string' Sets the hover text formatting rulefor z using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format.By default the values are formatted using generic number format. 

zmax: 'number' Sets the upper bound of the color domain. Value should have the same units as in z and if set, zmin must be set as well. 

zmid: 'number' Sets the mid-point of the color domain by scaling zmin and/or zmax to be equidistant to this point. Value should have the same units as in z. Has no effect when zauto is false. 

zmin: 'number' Sets the lower bound of the color domain. Value should have the same units as in z and if set, zmax must be set as well. 

zsmooth: 'enumerated , one of ( "fast" | "best" | false )' Picks a smoothing algorithm use to smooth z data.