Scatterpolar
Overview
The scatterpolar
trace type is used to create scatter plots on polar coordinates, which is ideal for visualizing data in a circular format. This type of plot allows data to be represented using angles and radial distances, making it useful for cyclic or directional data.
You can customize the marker size, color, and lines to connect points, similar to standard scatter plots, but within a polar coordinate system.
Common Uses
- Cyclic Data Visualization: Representing cyclic data such as time of day, seasonality, or wind direction.
- Directional Data: Visualizing data with directional components, such as angular measurements.
- Circular Data Analysis: Useful for data where radial distance and angle are key factors.
Check out the Attributes for the full set of configuration options
Examples
Common Configurations
Here's a simple scatterpolar
plot showing data points on a polar coordinate system:
You can copy this code below to create this chart in your project:
models:
- name: scatterpolar-data
args:
- echo
- |
theta,r
0,10
45,20
90,30
135,25
180,15
traces:
- name: Simple Scatterpolar Plot
model: ref(scatterpolar-data)
props:
type: scatterpolar
theta: query(theta)
r: query(r)
mode: "markers"
charts:
- name: Simple Scatterpolar Chart
traces:
- ref(Simple Scatterpolar Plot)
layout:
title:
text: Simple Scatterpolar Plot<br><sub>Polar Data Points</sub>
This example demonstrates a scatterpolar
plot with lines connecting the data points in polar coordinates:
Here's the code:
models:
- name: scatterpolar-data-lines
args:
- echo
- |
theta,r
0,5
45,15
90,20
135,10
180,25
traces:
- name: Scatterpolar Plot with Lines
model: ref(scatterpolar-data-lines)
props:
type: scatterpolar
theta: query(theta)
r: query(r)
mode: "lines+markers"
charts:
- name: Scatterpolar Chart with Lines
traces:
- ref(Scatterpolar Plot with Lines)
layout:
title:
text: Scatterpolar Plot with Lines<br><sub>Connecting Data Points with Lines in Polar Coordinates</sub>
Here's a scatterpolar
plot with custom marker sizes and colors, giving more visual weight to each data point in polar coordinates:
Here's the code:
models:
- name: scatterpolar-data-custom
args:
- echo
- |
theta,r,size,color
0,5,10,#1f77b4
45,15,15,#ff7f0e
90,20,20,#2ca02c
135,10,25,#d62728
180,25,30,#9467bd
traces:
- name: Scatterpolar Plot with Custom Markers
model: ref(scatterpolar-data-custom)
props:
type: scatterpolar
theta: query(theta)
r: query(r)
mode: "markers"
marker:
size: query(size)
color: query(color)
charts:
- name: Scatterpolar Chart with Custom Markers
traces:
- ref(Scatterpolar Plot with Custom Markers)
layout:
title:
text: Scatterpolar Plot with Custom Markers<br><sub>Custom Sizes and Colors for Polar Data Points</sub>
Attributes
These attributes apply to traces where trace.props.type
is set to scatterpolar
. You would configure these attributes on the trace with the trace.props
object.
cliponaxis: 'boolean' #(1)!
connectgaps: 'boolean' #(2)!
customdata: 'data array' #(3)!
dr: 'number' #(4)!
dtheta: 'number' #(5)!
fill: 'enumerated , one of ( "none" | "toself" | "tonext" )' #(6)!
fillcolor: 'color' #(7)!
hoverinfo: 'flaglist string. any combination of "r", "theta", "text", "name" joined
with a "+" or "all" or "none" or "skip".' #(8)!
hoverlabel:
align: 'enumerated or array of enumerateds , one of ( "left" | "right" | "auto"
)' #(9)!
bgcolor: 'color or array of colors' #(10)!
bordercolor: 'color or array of colors' #(11)!
font:
color: color or array of colors
family: 'string or array of strings' #(12)!
size: number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 1
namelength: 'integer or array of integers greater than or equal to -1' #(13)!
hoveron: 'flaglist string. any combination of "points", "fills" joined with a "+"
' #(14)!
hovertemplate: 'string or array of strings' #(15)!
hovertext: 'string or array of strings' #(16)!
ids: 'data array' #(17)!
legendgroup: 'string' #(18)!
legendgrouptitle:
font:
color: color
family: 'string' #(19)!
size: number greater than or equal to 1
text: 'string' #(20)!
legendrank: 'number' #(21)!
legendwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(22)!
line:
backoff: 'number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 0' #(23)!
color: 'color' #(24)!
dash: 'string' #(25)!
shape: 'enumerated , one of ( "linear" | "spline" )' #(26)!
smoothing: 'number between or equal to 0 and 1.3' #(27)!
width: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(28)!
marker:
angle: 'angle' #(29)!
angleref: 'enumerated , one of ( "previous" | "up" )' #(30)!
autocolorscale: 'boolean' #(31)!
cauto: 'boolean' #(32)!
cmax: 'number' #(33)!
cmid: 'number' #(34)!
cmin: 'number' #(35)!
color: 'color or array of colors' #(36)!
coloraxis: 'subplotid' #(37)!
colorbar:
bgcolor: 'color' #(38)!
bordercolor: 'color' #(39)!
borderwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(40)!
dtick: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(41)!
exponentformat: 'enumerated , one of ( "none" | "e" | "e" | "power" | "si" | "b"
)' #(42)!
len: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(43)!
lenmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "fraction" | "pixels" )' #(44)!
minexponent: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(45)!
nticks: 'integer greater than or equal to 0' #(46)!
orientation: 'enumerated , one of ( "h" | "v" )' #(47)!
outlinecolor: 'color' #(48)!
outlinewidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(49)!
separatethousands: 'boolean' #(50)!
showexponent: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' #(51)!
showticklabels: 'boolean' #(52)!
showtickprefix: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' #(53)!
showticksuffix: 'enumerated , one of ( "all" | "first" | "last" | "none" )' #(54)!
thickness: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(55)!
thicknessmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "fraction" | "pixels" )' #(56)!
tick0: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(57)!
tickangle: 'angle' #(58)!
tickcolor: 'color' #(59)!
tickfont:
color: color
family: 'string' #(60)!
size: number greater than or equal to 1
tickformat: 'string' #(61)!
tickformatstops:
dtickrange: 'array' #(62)!
enabled: 'boolean' #(63)!
name: 'string' #(64)!
templateitemname: 'string' #(65)!
value: 'string' #(66)!
ticklabeloverflow: 'enumerated , one of ( "allow" | "hide past div" | "hide past
domain" )' #(67)!
ticklabelposition: 'enumerated , one of ( "outside" | "inside" | "outside top"
| "inside top" | "outside left" | "inside left" | "outside right" | "inside
right" | "outside bottom" | "inside bottom" )' #(68)!
ticklabelstep: 'integer greater than or equal to 1' #(69)!
ticklen: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(70)!
tickmode: 'enumerated , one of ( "auto" | "linear" | "array" )' #(71)!
tickprefix: 'string' #(72)!
ticks: 'enumerated , one of ( "outside" | "inside" | "" )' #(73)!
ticksuffix: 'string' #(74)!
ticktext: 'data array' #(75)!
tickvals: 'data array' #(76)!
tickwidth: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(77)!
title:
font:
color: color
family: 'string' #(78)!
size: number greater than or equal to 1
side: 'enumerated , one of ( "right" | "top" | "bottom" )' #(79)!
text: 'string' #(80)!
x: 'number between or equal to -2 and 3' #(81)!
xanchor: 'enumerated , one of ( "left" | "center" | "right" )' #(82)!
xpad: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(83)!
y: 'number between or equal to -2 and 3' #(84)!
yanchor: 'enumerated , one of ( "top" | "middle" | "bottom" )' #(85)!
ypad: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(86)!
colorscale: 'colorscale' #(87)!
gradient:
color: 'color or array of colors' #(88)!
type: 'enumerated or array of enumerateds , one of ( "radial" | "horizontal" |
"vertical" | "none" )' #(89)!
line:
autocolorscale: 'boolean' #(90)!
cauto: 'boolean' #(91)!
cmax: 'number' #(92)!
cmid: 'number' #(93)!
cmin: 'number' #(94)!
color: 'color or array of colors' #(95)!
coloraxis: 'subplotid' #(96)!
colorscale: 'colorscale' #(97)!
reversescale: 'boolean' #(98)!
width: 'number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 0' #(99)!
maxdisplayed: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(100)!
opacity: 'number or array of numbers between or equal to 0 and 1' #(101)!
reversescale: 'boolean' #(102)!
showscale: 'boolean' #(103)!
size: 'number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 0' #(104)!
sizemin: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(105)!
sizemode: 'enumerated , one of ( "diameter" | "area" )' #(106)!
sizeref: 'number' #(107)!
standoff: 'number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 0' #(108)!
symbol: 'enumerated or array of enumerateds , one of ( "0" | "0" | "circle" | "100"
| "100" | "circle-open" | "200" | "200" | "circle-dot" | "300" | "300" | "circle-open-dot"
| "1" | "1" | "square" | "101" | "101" | "square-open" | "201" | "201" | "square-dot"
| "301" | "301" | "square-open-dot" | "2" | "2" | "diamond" | "102" | "102" |
"diamond-open" | "202" | "202" | "diamond-dot" | "302" | "302" | "diamond-open-dot"
| "3" | "3" | "cross" | "103" | "103" | "cross-open" | "203" | "203" | "cross-dot"
| "303" | "303" | "cross-open-dot" | "4" | "4" | "x" | "104" | "104" | "x-open"
| "204" | "204" | "x-dot" | "304" | "304" | "x-open-dot" | "5" | "5" | "triangle-up"
| "105" | "105" | "triangle-up-open" | "205" | "205" | "triangle-up-dot" | "305"
| "305" | "triangle-up-open-dot" | "6" | "6" | "triangle-down" | "106" | "106"
| "triangle-down-open" | "206" | "206" | "triangle-down-dot" | "306" | "306" |
"triangle-down-open-dot" | "7" | "7" | "triangle-left" | "107" | "107" | "triangle-left-open"
| "207" | "207" | "triangle-left-dot" | "307" | "307" | "triangle-left-open-dot"
| "8" | "8" | "triangle-right" | "108" | "108" | "triangle-right-open" | "208"
| "208" | "triangle-right-dot" | "308" | "308" | "triangle-right-open-dot" | "9"
| "9" | "triangle-ne" | "109" | "109" | "triangle-ne-open" | "209" | "209" | "triangle-ne-dot"
| "309" | "309" | "triangle-ne-open-dot" | "10" | "10" | "triangle-se" | "110"
| "110" | "triangle-se-open" | "210" | "210" | "triangle-se-dot" | "310" | "310"
| "triangle-se-open-dot" | "11" | "11" | "triangle-sw" | "111" | "111" | "triangle-sw-open"
| "211" | "211" | "triangle-sw-dot" | "311" | "311" | "triangle-sw-open-dot" |
"12" | "12" | "triangle-nw" | "112" | "112" | "triangle-nw-open" | "212" | "212"
| "triangle-nw-dot" | "312" | "312" | "triangle-nw-open-dot" | "13" | "13" | "pentagon"
| "113" | "113" | "pentagon-open" | "213" | "213" | "pentagon-dot" | "313" | "313"
| "pentagon-open-dot" | "14" | "14" | "hexagon" | "114" | "114" | "hexagon-open"
| "214" | "214" | "hexagon-dot" | "314" | "314" | "hexagon-open-dot" | "15" |
"15" | "hexagon2" | "115" | "115" | "hexagon2-open" | "215" | "215" | "hexagon2-dot"
| "315" | "315" | "hexagon2-open-dot" | "16" | "16" | "octagon" | "116" | "116"
| "octagon-open" | "216" | "216" | "octagon-dot" | "316" | "316" | "octagon-open-dot"
| "17" | "17" | "star" | "117" | "117" | "star-open" | "217" | "217" | "star-dot"
| "317" | "317" | "star-open-dot" | "18" | "18" | "hexagram" | "118" | "118" |
"hexagram-open" | "218" | "218" | "hexagram-dot" | "318" | "318" | "hexagram-open-dot"
| "19" | "19" | "star-triangle-up" | "119" | "119" | "star-triangle-up-open" |
"219" | "219" | "star-triangle-up-dot" | "319" | "319" | "star-triangle-up-open-dot"
| "20" | "20" | "star-triangle-down" | "120" | "120" | "star-triangle-down-open"
| "220" | "220" | "star-triangle-down-dot" | "320" | "320" | "star-triangle-down-open-dot"
| "21" | "21" | "star-square" | "121" | "121" | "star-square-open" | "221" | "221"
| "star-square-dot" | "321" | "321" | "star-square-open-dot" | "22" | "22" | "star-diamond"
| "122" | "122" | "star-diamond-open" | "222" | "222" | "star-diamond-dot" | "322"
| "322" | "star-diamond-open-dot" | "23" | "23" | "diamond-tall" | "123" | "123"
| "diamond-tall-open" | "223" | "223" | "diamond-tall-dot" | "323" | "323" | "diamond-tall-open-dot"
| "24" | "24" | "diamond-wide" | "124" | "124" | "diamond-wide-open" | "224" |
"224" | "diamond-wide-dot" | "324" | "324" | "diamond-wide-open-dot" | "25" |
"25" | "hourglass" | "125" | "125" | "hourglass-open" | "26" | "26" | "bowtie"
| "126" | "126" | "bowtie-open" | "27" | "27" | "circle-cross" | "127" | "127"
| "circle-cross-open" | "28" | "28" | "circle-x" | "128" | "128" | "circle-x-open"
| "29" | "29" | "square-cross" | "129" | "129" | "square-cross-open" | "30" |
"30" | "square-x" | "130" | "130" | "square-x-open" | "31" | "31" | "diamond-cross"
| "131" | "131" | "diamond-cross-open" | "32" | "32" | "diamond-x" | "132" | "132"
| "diamond-x-open" | "33" | "33" | "cross-thin" | "133" | "133" | "cross-thin-open"
| "34" | "34" | "x-thin" | "134" | "134" | "x-thin-open" | "35" | "35" | "asterisk"
| "135" | "135" | "asterisk-open" | "36" | "36" | "hash" | "136" | "136" | "hash-open"
| "236" | "236" | "hash-dot" | "336" | "336" | "hash-open-dot" | "37" | "37" |
"y-up" | "137" | "137" | "y-up-open" | "38" | "38" | "y-down" | "138" | "138"
| "y-down-open" | "39" | "39" | "y-left" | "139" | "139" | "y-left-open" | "40"
| "40" | "y-right" | "140" | "140" | "y-right-open" | "41" | "41" | "line-ew"
| "141" | "141" | "line-ew-open" | "42" | "42" | "line-ns" | "142" | "142" | "line-ns-open"
| "43" | "43" | "line-ne" | "143" | "143" | "line-ne-open" | "44" | "44" | "line-nw"
| "144" | "144" | "line-nw-open" | "45" | "45" | "arrow-up" | "145" | "145" |
"arrow-up-open" | "46" | "46" | "arrow-down" | "146" | "146" | "arrow-down-open"
| "47" | "47" | "arrow-left" | "147" | "147" | "arrow-left-open" | "48" | "48"
| "arrow-right" | "148" | "148" | "arrow-right-open" | "49" | "49" | "arrow-bar-up"
| "149" | "149" | "arrow-bar-up-open" | "50" | "50" | "arrow-bar-down" | "150"
| "150" | "arrow-bar-down-open" | "51" | "51" | "arrow-bar-left" | "151" | "151"
| "arrow-bar-left-open" | "52" | "52" | "arrow-bar-right" | "152" | "152" | "arrow-bar-right-open"
| "53" | "53" | "arrow" | "153" | "153" | "arrow-open" | "54" | "54" | "arrow-wide"
| "154" | "154" | "arrow-wide-open" )' #(109)!
meta: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(110)!
mode: 'flaglist string. any combination of "lines", "markers", "text" joined with
a "+" or "none".' #(111)!
opacity: 'number between or equal to 0 and 1' #(112)!
r: 'data array' #(114)!
r0: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(113)!
selected:
marker:
color: 'color' #(115)!
opacity: 'number between or equal to 0 and 1' #(116)!
size: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(117)!
textfont:
color: 'color' #(118)!
selectedpoints: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(119)!
showlegend: 'boolean' #(120)!
subplot: 'subplotid' #(121)!
text: 'string or array of strings' #(122)!
textfont:
color: color or array of colors
family: 'string or array of strings' #(123)!
size: number or array of numbers greater than or equal to 1
textposition: 'enumerated or array of enumerateds , one of ( "top left" | "top center"
| "top right" | "middle left" | "middle center" | "middle right" | "bottom left"
| "bottom center" | "bottom right" )' #(124)!
texttemplate: 'string or array of strings' #(125)!
theta: 'data array' #(127)!
theta0: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(126)!
thetaunit: 'enumerated , one of ( "radians" | "degrees" | "gradians" )' #(128)!
type: scatterpolar
uirevision: 'number or categorical coordinate string' #(129)!
unselected:
marker:
color: 'color' #(130)!
opacity: 'number between or equal to 0 and 1' #(131)!
size: 'number greater than or equal to 0' #(132)!
textfont:
color: 'color' #(133)!
visible: 'enumerated , one of ( true | false | "legendonly" )' #(134)!
- Determines whether or not markers and text nodes are clipped about the subplot axes. To show markers and text nodes above axis lines and tick labels, make sure to set
xaxis.layer
andyaxis.layer
to "below traces". - Determines whether or not gaps (i.e. {nan} or missing values) in the provided data arrays are connected.
- 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
- Sets the r coordinate step.
- Sets the theta coordinate step. By default, the
dtheta
step equals the subplot's period divided by the length of ther
coordinates. - Sets the area to fill with a solid color. Use with
fillcolor
if not "none". scatterpolar has a subset of the options available to scatter. "toself" connects the endpoints of the trace (or each segment of the trace if it has gaps) into a closed shape. "tonext" fills the space between two traces if one completely encloses the other (eg consecutive contour lines), and behaves like "toself" if there is no trace before it. "tonext" should not be used if one trace does not enclose the other. - Sets the fill color. Defaults to a half-transparent variant of the line color, marker color, or marker line color, whichever is available.
- Determines which trace information appear on hover. If
none
orskip
are set, no information is displayed upon hovering. But, ifnone
is set, click and hover events are still fired. - 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
- Sets the background color of the hover labels for this trace
- Sets the border color of the hover labels for this trace.
- 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".
- 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. - Do the hover effects highlight individual points (markers or line points) or do they highlight filled regions? If the fill is "toself" or "tonext" and there are no markers or text, then the default is "fills", otherwise it is "points".
- 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 inhovertemplate
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 arearrayOk: true
) are available. 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>
. - Sets hover text elements associated with each (x,y) pair. If a single string, the same string appears over all the data points. If an array of string, the items are mapped in order to the this trace's (x,y) coordinates. To be seen, trace
hoverinfo
must contain a "text" flag. - 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.
- Sets the legend group for this trace. Traces part of the same legend group hide/show at the same time when toggling legend items.
- 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".
- Sets the title of the legend group.
- 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. - Sets the width (in px or fraction) of the legend for this trace.
- Sets the line back off from the end point of the nth line segment (in px). This option is useful e.g. to avoid overlap with arrowhead markers. With "auto" the lines would trim before markers if
marker.angleref
is set to "previous". - Sets the line color.
- Sets the dash style of lines. Set to a dash type string ("solid", "dot", "dash", "longdash", "dashdot", or "longdashdot") or a dash length list in px (eg "5px,10px,2px,2px").
- Determines the line shape. With "spline" the lines are drawn using spline interpolation. The other available values correspond to step-wise line shapes.
- Has an effect only if
shape
is set to "spline" Sets the amount of smoothing. "0" corresponds to no smoothing (equivalent to a "linear" shape). - Sets the line width (in px).
- Sets the marker angle in respect to
angleref
. - Sets the reference for marker angle. With "previous", angle 0 points along the line from the previous point to this one. With "up", angle 0 points toward the top of the screen.
- Determines whether the colorscale is a default palette (
autocolorscale: true
) or the palette determined bymarker.colorscale
. Has an effect only if inmarker.color
is set to a numerical array. In casecolorscale
is unspecified orautocolorscale
is true, the default palette will be chosen according to whether numbers in thecolor
array are all positive, all negative or mixed. - Determines whether or not the color domain is computed with respect to the input data (here in
marker.color
) or the bounds set inmarker.cmin
andmarker.cmax
Has an effect only if inmarker.color
is set to a numerical array. Defaults tofalse
whenmarker.cmin
andmarker.cmax
are set by the user. - Sets the upper bound of the color domain. Has an effect only if in
marker.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.color
and if set,marker.cmin
must be set as well. - Sets the mid-point of the color domain by scaling
marker.cmin
and/ormarker.cmax
to be equidistant to this point. Has an effect only if inmarker.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.color
. Has no effect whenmarker.cauto
isfalse
. - Sets the lower bound of the color domain. Has an effect only if in
marker.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.color
and if set,marker.cmax
must be set as well. - Sets the marker color. It accepts either a specific color or an array of numbers that are mapped to the colorscale relative to the max and min values of the array or relative to
marker.cmin
andmarker.cmax
if set. - 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. - Sets the color of padded area.
- Sets the axis line color.
- Sets the width (in px) or the border enclosing this color bar.
- 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 axistype
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 exampletick0
= 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 axistype
is "date", then you must convert the time to milliseconds. For example, to set the interval between ticks to one day, setdtick
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, settick0
to "2000-01-15" anddtick
to "M3". To set ticks every 4 years, setdtick
to "M48" - 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.
- 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.
- 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. - Hide SI prefix for 10^n if |n| is below this number. This only has an effect when
tickformat
is "SI" or "B". - 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 iftickmode
is set to "auto". - Sets the orientation of the colorbar.
- Sets the axis line color.
- Sets the width (in px) of the axis line.
- If "true", even 4-digit integers are separated
- 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.
- Determines whether or not the tick labels are drawn.
- 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.
- Same as
showtickprefix
but for tick suffixes. - Sets the thickness of the color bar This measure excludes the size of the padding, ticks and labels.
- 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. - Sets the placement of the first tick on this axis. Use with
dtick
. If the axistype
is "log", then you must take the log of your starting tick (e.g. to set the starting tick to 100, set thetick0
to 2) except whendtick
="L" (see dtick
for more info). If the axistype
is "date", it should be a date string, like date data. If the axistype
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. - Sets the angle of the tick labels with respect to the horizontal. For example, a
tickangle
of -90 draws the tick labels vertically. - Sets the tick color.
- 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".
- 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"
- 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"
- Determines whether or not this stop is used. If
false
, this stop is ignored even within itsdtickrange
. - 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 thisname
alongside your modifications (includingvisible: false
orenabled: false
to hide it). Has no effect outside of a template. - 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 itsname
, alongside your modifications (includingvisible: false
orenabled: false
to hide it). If there is no template or no matching item, this item will be hidden unless you explicitly show it withvisible: true
. - string - dtickformat for described zoom level, the same as "tickformat"
- 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".
- Determines where tick labels are drawn relative to the ticks. Left and right options are used when
orientation
is "h", top and bottom whenorientation
is "v". - 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 withtype
"log" or "multicategory", or whentickmode
is "array". - Sets the tick length (in px).
- 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 positiontick0
and a tick stepdtick
("linear" is the default value iftick0
anddtick
are provided). If "array", the placement of the ticks is set viatickvals
and the tick text isticktext
. ("array" is the default value iftickvals
is provided). - Sets a tick label prefix.
- 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.
- Sets a tick label suffix.
- Sets the text displayed at the ticks position via
tickvals
. Only has an effect iftickmode
is set to "array". Used withtickvals
. - Sets the values at which ticks on this axis appear. Only has an effect if
tickmode
is set to "array". Used withticktext
. - Sets the tick width (in px).
- 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".
- 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" whenorientation
if "h". Note that the title's location used to be set by the now deprecatedtitleside
attribute. - Sets the title of the color bar. Note that before the existence of
title.text
, the title's contents used to be defined as thetitle
attribute itself. This behavior has been deprecated. - Sets the x position of the color bar (in plot fraction). Defaults to 1.02 when
orientation
is "v" and 0.5 whenorientation
is "h". - 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" whenorientation
is "v" and "center" whenorientation
is "h". - Sets the amount of padding (in px) along the x direction.
- Sets the y position of the color bar (in plot fraction). Defaults to 0.5 when
orientation
is "v" and 1.02 whenorientation
is "h". - 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" whenorientation
is "v" and "bottom" whenorientation
is "h". - Sets the amount of padding (in px) along the y direction.
- Sets the colorscale. Has an effect only if in
marker.color
is set to a numerical array. 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, usemarker.cmin
andmarker.cmax
. 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. - Sets the final color of the gradient fill: the center color for radial, the right for horizontal, or the bottom for vertical.
- Sets the type of gradient used to fill the markers
- Determines whether the colorscale is a default palette (
autocolorscale: true
) or the palette determined bymarker.line.colorscale
. Has an effect only if inmarker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. In casecolorscale
is unspecified orautocolorscale
is true, the default palette will be chosen according to whether numbers in thecolor
array are all positive, all negative or mixed. - Determines whether or not the color domain is computed with respect to the input data (here in
marker.line.color
) or the bounds set inmarker.line.cmin
andmarker.line.cmax
Has an effect only if inmarker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. Defaults tofalse
whenmarker.line.cmin
andmarker.line.cmax
are set by the user. - Sets the upper bound of the color domain. Has an effect only if in
marker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.line.color
and if set,marker.line.cmin
must be set as well. - Sets the mid-point of the color domain by scaling
marker.line.cmin
and/ormarker.line.cmax
to be equidistant to this point. Has an effect only if inmarker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.line.color
. Has no effect whenmarker.line.cauto
isfalse
. - Sets the lower bound of the color domain. Has an effect only if in
marker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. Value should have the same units as inmarker.line.color
and if set,marker.line.cmax
must be set as well. - Sets the marker.line color. It accepts either a specific color or an array of numbers that are mapped to the colorscale relative to the max and min values of the array or relative to
marker.line.cmin
andmarker.line.cmax
if set. - 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. - Sets the colorscale. Has an effect only if in
marker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. 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, usemarker.line.cmin
andmarker.line.cmax
. 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. - Reverses the color mapping if true. Has an effect only if in
marker.line.color
is set to a numerical array. If true,marker.line.cmin
will correspond to the last color in the array andmarker.line.cmax
will correspond to the first color. - Sets the width (in px) of the lines bounding the marker points.
- Sets a maximum number of points to be drawn on the graph. "0" corresponds to no limit.
- Sets the marker opacity.
- Reverses the color mapping if true. Has an effect only if in
marker.color
is set to a numerical array. If true,marker.cmin
will correspond to the last color in the array andmarker.cmax
will correspond to the first color. - Determines whether or not a colorbar is displayed for this trace. Has an effect only if in
marker.color
is set to a numerical array. - Sets the marker size (in px).
- Has an effect only if
marker.size
is set to a numerical array. Sets the minimum size (in px) of the rendered marker points. - Has an effect only if
marker.size
is set to a numerical array. Sets the rule for which the data insize
is converted to pixels. - Has an effect only if
marker.size
is set to a numerical array. Sets the scale factor used to determine the rendered size of marker points. Use withsizemin
andsizemode
. - Moves the marker away from the data point in the direction of
angle
(in px). This can be useful for example if you have another marker at this location and you want to point an arrowhead marker at it. - Sets the marker symbol type. Adding 100 is equivalent to appending "-open" to a symbol name. Adding 200 is equivalent to appending "-dot" to a symbol name. Adding 300 is equivalent to appending "-open-dot" or "dot-open" to a symbol name.
- Assigns extra meta information associated with this trace that can be used in various text attributes. Attributes such as trace
name
, graph, axis and colorbartitle.text
, annotationtext
rangeselector
,updatemenues
andsliders
label
text all supportmeta
. To access the tracemeta
values in an attribute in the same trace, simply use%{meta[i]}
wherei
is the index or key of themeta
item in question. To access tracemeta
in layout attributes, use%{data[n[.meta[i]}
wherei
is the index or key of themeta
andn
is the trace index. - Determines the drawing mode for this scatter trace. If the provided
mode
includes "text" then thetext
elements appear at the coordinates. Otherwise, thetext
elements appear on hover. If there are less than 20 points and the trace is not stacked then the default is "lines+markers". Otherwise, "lines". - Sets the opacity of the trace.
- Alternate to
r
. Builds a linear space of r coordinates. Use withdr
wherer0
is the starting coordinate anddr
the step. - Sets the radial coordinates
- Sets the marker color of selected points.
- Sets the marker opacity of selected points.
- Sets the marker size of selected points.
- Sets the text font color of selected points.
- Array containing integer indices of selected points. Has an effect only for traces that support selections. Note that an empty array means an empty selection where the
unselected
are turned on for all points, whereas, any other non-array values means no selection all where theselected
andunselected
styles have no effect. - Determines whether or not an item corresponding to this trace is shown in the legend.
- Sets a reference between this trace's data coordinates and a polar subplot. If "polar" (the default value), the data refer to
layout.polar
. If "polar2", the data refer tolayout.polar2
, and so on. - Sets text elements associated with each (x,y) pair. If a single string, the same string appears over all the data points. If an array of string, the items are mapped in order to the this trace's (x,y) coordinates. If trace
hoverinfo
contains a "text" flag and "hovertext" is not set, these elements will be seen in the hover labels. - 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".
- Sets the positions of the
text
elements with respects to the (x,y) coordinates. - 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 arearrayOk: true
) are available. variablesr
,theta
andtext
. - Alternate to
theta
. Builds a linear space of theta coordinates. Use withdtheta
wheretheta0
is the starting coordinate anddtheta
the step. - Sets the angular coordinates
- Sets the unit of input "theta" values. Has an effect only when on "linear" angular axes.
- Controls persistence of some user-driven changes to the trace:
constraintrange
inparcoords
traces, as well as someeditable: true
modifications such asname
andcolorbar.title
. Defaults tolayout.uirevision
. Note that other user-driven trace attribute changes are controlled bylayout
attributes:trace.visible
is controlled bylayout.legend.uirevision
,selectedpoints
is controlled bylayout.selectionrevision
, andcolorbar.(x|y)
(accessible withconfig: {editable: true}
) is controlled bylayout.editrevision
. Trace changes are tracked byuid
, which only falls back on trace index if nouid
is provided. So if your app can add/remove traces before the end of thedata
array, such that the same trace has a different index, you can still preserve user-driven changes if you give each trace auid
that stays with it as it moves. - Sets the marker color of unselected points, applied only when a selection exists.
- Sets the marker opacity of unselected points, applied only when a selection exists.
- Sets the marker size of unselected points, applied only when a selection exists.
- Sets the text font color of unselected points, applied only when a selection exists.
- 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).