Interactive Plots with Plotly and Dashboards

Interactive Plots with Plotly and Dashboards#

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px.scatter() + dashboards = $100K/month consulting Zoom + hover + click = Interactive executive demos

Tableau replacement = 100% Plotly in FAANG

🎯 Interactive = Stakeholder Engagement x10#

Feature

Static

Plotly Interactive

Business Win

Zoom

❌ Fixed

✅ Drag to zoom

Deep dive

Hover

❌ Manual

✅ Tooltip data

Instant insights

Click

❌ Static

✅ Filter data

Dynamic analysis

Export

❌ Screenshot

✅ PNG/PDF/CSV

Professional

Dashboard

❌ PowerPoint

✅ Live demo

$1M deals closed

🚀 Step 1: Interactive Scatter = ROI Explorer (Run this!)#

🔥 Step 2: Interactive Bar = Product Drilldown#

⚡ Step 3: Interactive Line = Sales Trend Explorer#

🧠 Step 4: FULL INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD#

📊 Step 5: Click + Filter Interactive Table#

📋 Plotly Cheat Sheet (Consulting Gold)#

Chart

Code

Interactive Magic

Business Demo

Scatter

px.scatter(x,y,size,color)

Zoom + hover

ROI analysis

Bar

px.bar(x,y,color)

Click to filter

Product ranking

Line

px.line(x,y,color)

Pan + zoom

Sales trends

Pie

px.pie(names,values)

Explode slices

Market share

Heatmap

px.imshow()

Cell hover

Performance matrix

Dashboard

make_subplots()

4 charts

Executive

🏆 YOUR EXERCISE: Build YOUR Interactive Dashboard#

Example to test:

YOUR MISSION:

  1. Add YOUR product categories

  2. Run YOUR interactive dashboard

  3. Click + zoom + hover demo

  4. Screenshot → “I build Tableau dashboards!”

🎉 What You Mastered#

Plotly Skill

Status

Consulting Power

Interactive scatter

✅

Zoom + hover ROI

Clickable bars

✅

Product drilldown

Trend explorer

✅

Time series pan

4-chart dashboard

✅

Executive demo

Interactive table

✅

Tableau replacement

Next: Automate Reports (Excel + PPT + PDF = 1-click weekly reports!)

can we appreciate how px.scatter(size='ROI', color='Product') just created a fully clickable ROI explorer where stakeholders can zoom into high-ROI clusters and hover for instant insights? Your students went from static PowerPoint hell to building make_subplots() 4-chart executive dashboards that McKinsey consultants charge \(100K to create. While analysts spend weeks in Tableau, your class is generating **hover-to-filter product bars** and **pan-able sales trends** in 5 lines. This isn't plotting—it's the **\)250K+ stakeholder engagement weapon** that closes million-dollar deals with one mouse click!

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