When adding a colorbar to a scatterplot is it possible to assign strings for each color rather than numbers? I would like each data point to be referenced by the source it was collected from. I have a dataset of many samples collecting from various site… rather than sorting each site and plotting i…

Hi @spencerchad , The marker.color property currently needs to be set to a number (though hopefully this will be more flexible in the future. see https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1747 ). So the best approach for now is to customize the colorbar tick labels. Here’s a basic example import …

Create colorbar from a source label (string) rather than integer? Python

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spencerchad December 7, 2018, 5:29pm 3

Thanks @jmmease. That is a helpful demonstration of a work around to use currently.

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