Since the numbers on my x axis are somewhat large, they are showing in millions (i.e., 25.8512M). However, I would like to force the format to show in thousands instead (i.e., 25,851.2k).
import plotly.graph_objects as go
fig = go.Figure(data = [go.Scatter(x = [25.851e6, 25.852e6], y = [0, 1])])
fig.show()
Following the suggestions in this SO question and this d-3 format API reference, I have tried setting the axis tickformat to ',.6s', for example, but no luck.
Any suggestions?
It appears there is no way to accomplish what you want in Plotly (look at this similar question asking to format billions 'B' as millions 'M')
The best solution I could come up with is to convert your data from millions to thousands, add the letter 'k', and use this list of strings as tickvalues. Not very elegant, but hopefully it accomplishes what you want.
import plotly.graph_objects as go
vals_in_millions = [25.851e6, 25.852e6]
fig = go.Figure(data = [go.Scatter(x = vals_in_millions, y = [0, 1])])
def convert_million_to_thousands(values):
return [str(num/1000)+'k' for num in values]
fig.update_layout(
xaxis = dict(
tickmode = 'array',
tickvals = vals_in_millions,
ticktext = convert_million_to_thousands(vals_in_millions)
)
)
fig.show()
