Colorscale for go.Bar

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1

Hi,

If I edit in chart studio I can choose a categorical color scale under Style -> General -> ColorScales -> Categorical -> Dark24. I attach image of chart studio here.

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But when I try to do this in plot.ly in python API I cannot find an equivalent for this.

It seems to supposedly be in the layout definition, but this does not accept categorical as a valid colorscale definition. I.e.,

layout = {
    'barmode':'relative',
    'title_text':'Industrial Production Y/Y Growth Level %s by Subsector' %(desired_level),
    'colorscale': {'categorical':'dark24'}
}

That’d give the error:

ValueError: Invalid property specified for object of type plotly.graph_objs.layout.Colorscale: ‘categorical’

This is the full python code I am using:

import dash_core_components as dcc
import datetime
import plotly.graph_objs as go
trace1 = go.Bar(
    x=[datetime.date(2019,1,1), datetime.date(2019,1,2)],
    y=[0.5,0.8],
    name='series 1')
trace2 = go.Bar(
    x=[datetime.date(2019,1,1), datetime.date(2019,1,2)],
    y=[0.3,0.4],
    name='series 2')
traces = [trace1, trace2]
    layout = {
        'barmode':'relative',
        'title_text':'test'
    }
fig = go.Figure(data=traces, layout=layout)
dcc.Graph(figure=fig)

Output in plot.ly dash:

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2

Would this syntax using plotly express be useful?

import plotly.express as px
tips = px.data.tips()
fig = px.bar(tips, x="sex", y="total_bill", color='tip', color_continuous_scale=px.colors.qualitative.Dark24)
fig.show()
3

Actually the color depends on how you want to set the color (is it from numerical or non-numerical values). If you could provide some code using go (without the colorscale set properly) it would help.

4

Thanks! yes, no problem, I will update the code in the Q

5

Hi, I just provided the code in the Q.

6

You can set the color of each trace using a given colormap like

import dash_core_components as dcc
import datetime
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import plotly.express as px
trace1 = go.Bar(
    x=[datetime.date(2019,1,1), datetime.date(2019,1,2)],
    y=[0.5,0.8],
    name='series 1',
    marker_color=px.colors.qualitative.Dark24[0])
trace2 = go.Bar(
    x=[datetime.date(2019,1,1), datetime.date(2019,1,2)],
    y=[0.3,0.4],
    name='series 2',
    marker_color=px.colors.qualitative.Dark24[1])
traces = [trace1, trace2]
layout = {
        'barmode':'relative',
        'title_text':'test'
    }
fig = go.Figure(data=traces, layout=layout)
fig.show()
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7

I like this solution, not as elegant as setting one colorscale in the layout but get’s the job done. thanks!

8

there might be a better solution but this is the only way I found!

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