Legacy polar chart

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Legacy Plot

These polar charts are legacy and will likely be deprecated in Plotly 2.0. Please see the new scatterpolar and scatterpolargl trace types for latest and greatest in Plotly polar coordinates.

Basic Polar Chart

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('polar_dataset.csv')

trace1 = go.Scatter(
    r=df['x1'],
    t=df['y'],
    mode='lines',
    name='go.Figure8',
    marker=dict(
        color='none',
        line=dict(
            color='peru'
        )
    )
)
trace2 = go.Scatter(
    r=df['x2'],
    t=df['y'],
    mode='lines',
    name='Cardioid',
    marker=dict(
        color='none',
        line=dict(
            color='darkviolet'
        )
    )
)
trace3 = go.Scatter(
    r=df['x3'],
    t=df['y'],
    mode='lines',
    name='Hypercardioid',
    marker=dict(
        color='none',
        line=dict(
            color='deepskyblue'
        )
    )
)
trace4 = go.Scatter(
    r=df['x4'],
    t=df['y'],
    mode='lines',
    name='Subcardioid',
    marker=dict(
        color='none',
        line=dict(
            color='orangered'
        )
    )
)
trace5 = go.Scatter(
    r=df['x5'],
    t=df['y'],
    mode='lines',
    name='Supercardioid',
    marker=dict(
        color='none',
        line=dict(
            color='green'
        )
    )
)
data = [trace1, trace2, trace3, trace4, trace5]
layout = go.Layout(
    title='Mic Patterns',
    font=dict(
        family='Arial, sans-serif;',
        size=12,
        color='#000'
    ),
    orientation=-90
)
fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig, filename='polar-line')

Polar Scatter Chart

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import numpy as np

trace1 = go.Scatter(
    r = np.random.uniform(1,6,size=62),
    t = np.random.uniform(30,5,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 1',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(27,158,119)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
trace2 = go.Scatter(
    r=np.random.uniform(3,8,size=62),
    t=np.random.uniform(-14,-76,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 2',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(217,95,2)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
trace3 = go.Scatter(
    r=np.random.uniform(1,7,size=62),
    t=np.random.uniform(131,111,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 3',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(117,112,179)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
trace4 = go.Scatter(
    r=np.random.uniform(1,9,size=62),
    t=np.random.uniform(-140,-177,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 4',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(231,41,138)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
trace5 = go.Scatter(
    r=np.random.uniform(1,3,size=62),
    t=np.random.uniform(-100,-163,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 5',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(102,166,30)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
trace6 = go.Scatter(
    r=np.random.uniform(0,5,size=62),
    t=np.random.uniform(66,47,size=62),
    mode='markers',
    name='Trial 6',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(230,171,2)',
        size=110,
        line=dict(
            color='white'
        ),
        opacity=0.7
    )
)
data = [trace1, trace2, trace3, trace4, trace5, trace6]
layout = go.Layout(
    title='Hobbs-Pearson Trials',
    font=dict(
        size=15
    ),
    plot_bgcolor='rgb(223, 223, 223)',
    angularaxis=dict(
        tickcolor='rgb(253,253,253)'
    )
)
fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig)

Wind Rose Chart

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

trace1 = go.Area(
    r=[77.5, 72.5, 70.0, 45.0, 22.5, 42.5, 40.0, 62.5],
    t=['North', 'N-E', 'East', 'S-E', 'South', 'S-W', 'West', 'N-W'],
    name='11-14 m/s',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(106,81,163)'
    )
)
trace2 = go.Area(
    r=[57.49999999999999, 50.0, 45.0, 35.0, 20.0, 22.5, 37.5, 55.00000000000001],
    t=['North', 'N-E', 'East', 'S-E', 'South', 'S-W', 'West', 'N-W'],
    name='8-11 m/s',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(158,154,200)'
    )
)
trace3 = go.Area(
    r=[40.0, 30.0, 30.0, 35.0, 7.5, 7.5, 32.5, 40.0],
    t=['North', 'N-E', 'East', 'S-E', 'South', 'S-W', 'West', 'N-W'],
    name='5-8 m/s',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(203,201,226)'
    )
)
trace4 = go.Area(
    r=[20.0, 7.5, 15.0, 22.5, 2.5, 2.5, 12.5, 22.5],
    t=['North', 'N-E', 'East', 'S-E', 'South', 'S-W', 'West', 'N-W'],
    name='< 5 m/s',
    marker=dict(
        color='rgb(242,240,247)'
    )
)
data = [trace1, trace2, trace3, trace4]
layout = go.Layout(
    title='Wind Speed Distribution in Laurel, NE',
    font=dict(
        size=16
    ),
    legend=dict(
        font=dict(
            size=16
        )
    ),
    radialaxis=dict(
        ticksuffix='%'
    ),
    orientation=270
)
fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig, filename='polar-area-chart')

Reference

See https://plot.ly/python/reference/#area 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(
    'polar.ipynb', 'python/legacy-polar-chart/', 'Polar Charts [Legacy]',
    'Legacy polar charts in python.',
    title = 'Python Polar Charts | plotly',
    has_thumbnail='true', thumbnail='thumbnail/polar-scatter.jpg',
    language='python',
    display_as='legacy_charts', order=1,
    ipynb= '~notebook_demo/37')
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