Insets

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Simple Inset Graph

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go

trace1 = go.Scatter(
    x=[1, 2, 3],
    y=[4, 3, 2]
)
trace2 = go.Scatter(
    x=[20, 30, 40],
    y=[30, 40, 50],
    xaxis='x2',
    yaxis='y2'
)
data = [trace1, trace2]
layout = go.Layout(
    xaxis2=dict(
        domain=[0.6, 0.95],
        anchor='y2'
    ),
    yaxis2=dict(
        domain=[0.6, 0.95],
        anchor='x2'
    )
)
fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig, filename='simple-inset')

Reference

See https://plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-scene for more information and chart attribute options!

from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:600,400,300,200|Inconsolata|Ubuntu+Mono:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'))
display(HTML('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://help.plot.ly/documentation/all_static/css/ipython-notebook-custom.css">'))

!pip install git+https://github.com/plotly/publisher.git --upgrade
import publisher
publisher.publish(
    'inset.ipynb', 'python/insets/', 'Inset Plots | plotly',
    'How to make an inset graph in python.',
    title = 'Inset Plots | plotly',
    name = 'Inset Plots',
    has_thumbnail='true', thumbnail='thumbnail/insets.jpg',
    language='python', page_type='example_index',
    display_as='multiple_axes', order=3)