Figure factories

plotly.figure_factory

The plotly.figure_factory module contains dedicated functions for creating very specific types of plots that were at the time of their creation difficult to create with graph objects and prior to the existence of Plotly Express. As new functionality gets added to Plotly.js and to Plotly Express, certain Figure Factories become unnecessary and are therefore deprecated as "legacy", but remain in the module for backwards-compatibility reasons.

The following types of plots are still difficult to create with Graph Objects or Plotly Express and therefore the corresponding Figure Factories are not deprecated:

• Annotated Heatmaps
• Dendrograms
• Hexagonal Binning Tile Map
• Quiver Plots
• Streamline Plots
• Tables
• Ternary Contour Plots
• Triangulated Surface Plots

Deprecated "legacy" Figure Factories include:

• County Choropleth Maps, deprecated by regular Choropleth maps with GeoJSON input
• Distplots, mostly deprecated by px.histogram except for KDE plots, which px.histogram doesn't support yet
• Gantt Charts, deprecated by px.timeline

Reference

For more information about the contents of plotly.figure_factory, including deprecated methods, please refer to our API Reference documentation.