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reservoirinvest
reservoirinvest

Reputation: 1777

Plotly express bar chart colour change

How can I change the colour of the plotly express bar-chart to green in the following code?

import plotly.express as px
import pandas as pd

# prepare the dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(dict(
        x=[1, 2, 3],
        y=[1, 3, 2]
    ))


# prepare the layout
title = "A Bar Chart from Plotly Express"

fig = px.bar(df, 
             x='x', y='y', # data from df columns
             color= pd.Series('green', index=range(len(df))), # does not work
             title=title,
             labels={'x': 'Some X', 'y':'Some Y'})
fig.show()

Upvotes: 18

Views: 40846

Answers (2)

mdeverna
mdeverna

Reputation: 332

Literally copying an answer from the community response that @reservoirinvest posted. This is what I was looking for...

Not sure when this functionality was added, for anyone coming here looking for solutions to grouped bar charts, what most people will want in this case is not color_discrete_sequence but instead color_discrete_map. For example:

fig = px.bar(
    df, 
    x='x', 
    y='y', 
    color='z',   # if values in column z = 'some_group' and 'some_other_group'
    color_discrete_map={
        'some_group': 'red',
        'some_other_group': 'green'
    }
)

Upvotes: 13

reservoirinvest
reservoirinvest

Reputation: 1777

It can be done: - with color_discrete_sequence =['green']*3, or, - with fig.update_traces(marker_color='green') after the bar is instantiated.

Ref: Community response

Upvotes: 21

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