Superior Plotly with code collection (Half 9): To dot, to slope or to stack? | by Jose Parreño | Feb, 2025

Easy strategies to switch cluttered bar charts with crisp, reader-friendly visuals.

Statue of Shakespeare but with 3 chat bubbles saying to subplot, to stack or to slope
Picture by Steffen Petermann on Unsplash (a bubble’s added by me)

Statue may be present in Weimar — Park an der Ilm (however Shakespeare clearly doesn’t communicate)

Welcome to the ninth publish in my “Plotly with code” collection! For those who missed the primary one, you’ll be able to test it out within the hyperlink beneath, or flick through my “one publish to rule all of them” to observe together with your complete collection or different matters I’ve beforehand written about.

A brief abstract on why I’m penning this collection

My go-to device for creating visualisations is Plotly. It’s extremely intuitive, from layering traces to including interactivity. Nevertheless, while Plotly excels at performance, it doesn’t include a “information journalism” template that provides polished charts proper out of the field.

That’s the place this collection is available in — I’ll be sharing the way to rework Plotly’s charts into modern, professional-grade charts that…