May 15, 2018

Plotly

Plotly is a web application for creating and sharing data visualizations. This simple presentation is to demonstrate the use of plotly through a simple graph.

To use plotly follow the below steps:

  • Install 'plotly' package if you have not already installed
  • Load the plotly library
  • Call the plot_ly() method

Using the cars dataset for demo

We will use this simple 'cars' data frame to plot.

summary(cars)
##      speed           dist       
##  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
##  Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
##  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
##  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
##  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

Scatterplot sizing with cars dataset

You can click on the color legends (cyliders) to see the interactive graph