Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

Chapter 6: Exploring Variables with Scatter Plots and Filtering Subsets with Sliders

We are now going to tackle one of the most versatile, useful, and ubiquitous types of charts, the scatter plot. As its name implies, we basically scatter markers (which can be points, squares, circles, bubbles, or other symbols) on the Cartesian plane, where mainly their horizontal and vertical distances express the values they represent. Other visual attributes, such as size, color, and symbol, might be used to express other attributes, as we saw in some previous examples. As most of the fundamentals regarding figures and creating charts have been covered, we won't be spending much time on that, focusing instead on the particular details and options available ...