plotly/plotly.js

Features

• Interactive Data Charting - Creates web-based interactive charts and graphs with built-in support for zooming, panning, and hovering.
• Interactive Visualization Rendering - Renders a wide variety of dynamic charts including scatter, bar, pie, and 3D plots that respond to user input.
• Data Visualization Charts - Creates advanced data representations including Sankey diagrams, parallel coordinates, sunbursts, and treemaps.
• High-Performance Visualizers - Utilizes a high-performance WebGL engine for plotting large datasets and complex 3D visualizations in the browser.
• Geospatial Visualizations - Builds choropleth and scatter maps using built-in projections and custom geometry files.
• Hardware-Accelerated Rendering - Employs a dual-engine approach using both SVG and WebGL for hardware-accelerated rendering of high-density data.
• Financial Charting - Provides specialized financial visualizations such as candlestick and OHLC charts for market data analysis.
• Charting Libraries - Implements a high-performance JavaScript library for creating interactive web-based visualizations using SVG and WebGL.
• Axis Tick Formatters - Controls axis ranges, tick formatting, SI prefixes, and category ordering for various coordinate systems.
• Interaction Controls - Manages high-level interaction logic including panning, zooming, and custom drag modes for graph manipulation.
• Geospatial Mapping - Builds choropleth and scatter maps with custom projections to visualize geographic information.
• Geographic Projections - Translates geographic coordinates into visual representations using built-in map projections and custom geometry files.
• Legend Management - Organizes trace visibility and labels through customizable legends that support grouping and scrolling.
• Financial Visualization Toolkits - Provides a specialized toolkit for generating candlestick and OHLC charts used in technical financial analysis.
• Visual Data Exports - Converts interactive visualizations into static image files via data URLs or direct downloads.
• Concurrent WebGL Rendering - Provides a virtualized script to manage several hardware-accelerated visualizations on a single page.
• State Transition Animators - Implements smooth transitions between graph states by tweening numerical trace attributes over sequential frames.
• Geographic Visualization Tools - Offers a visualization system for rendering choropleth and scatter maps with custom projections and geometries.
• Scientific Visualizations - Renders advanced scientific diagrams including Sankey, parallel coordinates, and 3D plots for high-dimensional data analysis.
• Attribute Interpolation Engines - Features a frame-based animation engine that interpolates between trace attribute sets to transition graph states over time.
• Selective Trace Imports - Enables the creation of reduced distributions by importing only the specific chart modules and trace types required.
• Declarative Visualization States - Implements a declarative schema for updating visualization properties and layout configurations through attribute-driven state management.
• Hover Previews - Formats interactive data tooltips using templates with configurable positioning and styling.
• Area Selection - Provides box and lasso tools for selecting multiple data points within a visual region.
• Bundle Optimizers - Provides tools to create reduced-size distributions by including only necessary trace types and modules.
• Data Visualization - Open source JavaScript graphing library.
• Chart Libraries - High-level charting library for diverse interactive visualizations.
• Charting Libraries - D3-based library for creating complex charts and maps.
• JavaScript Charting - Powerful declarative library supporting numerous chart types.
• Sustainable Project Examples - Offers a paid platform tier built on top of the library.

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