Plot.ly

Plot.ly is a website currently in the beta stage, which provides online data visualization tools and a related Python library to be used on a user's machine. We can import and analyze data via the web interface or work entirely in a local environment and publish the end result on the Plot.ly website. Plots can be easily shared on the website within a team, allowing for collaboration, which is really the point of the website in the first place. In this section, we will give an example of how to plot a box plot with the Python API.

A box plot is a special way of visualizing a dataset using quartiles. If we split a sorted dataset into four equal parts, the first quartile will be the largest value of the part with the smallest numbers. The ...

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