Enhance Your Plotly Express Scatter Plot With Marginal Plots

Display Extra Information on your Plotly Express Scatter Plots

Display Extra Information on your Plotly Express Scatter Plots

Plotly Express Scatter Plot of well log data illustrating marginal plots on both axes. Image by the author.

Scatter plots are a commonly used data visualisation tool within data science. They allow us to plot two numerical variables, as points, on a two dimensional graph. From these plots, we can understand if there is a relationship between the two variables, and what the strength of that relationship is.

Within this short tutorial, we are going to use the excellent Plotly library to visualise a data set, and we are going to see how to add marginal plots to the edges of the y, and x-axis to enhance our visualisation and understanding of the data.

I have covered creating scatter plots in plotly and matplotlib, which you can find below:

• Creating Scatter Plots of Well Log Data Using matplotlib in Python

• Using Plotly Express to Create Interactive Scatter Plots

Part of this tutorial is covered in my Plotly Scatter Plots video