How do I resize my Plotly bar height and show only bar’s edge (in subplot)?

Running plotly.express wil return a plotly.graph_objs._figure.Figure object. The same goes for plotly.graph_objects running go.Figure() together with, for example, go.Bar(). So after building a figure using plotly express, you can add lines or traces through references directly to the figure, like:

fig['data'][0].width = 0.4

Which is exactly what you need to set the width of your bars. And you can easily use this in combination with plotly express:

Code 1

fig = px.bar(grouped, y='Category', x = ['Current'],
             orientation = 'h', barmode='overlay', opacity = 1,
             color_discrete_sequence = px.colors.qualitative.Plotly[1:])
fig['data'][0].width = 0.4

Plot 1

In order to get the bars or shapes to indicate the goal levels, you can use the approach described by DerekO, or you can use:

for i, g in enumerate(grouped.Goal):
    fig.add_shape(type="rect",
                    x0=g+1, y0=grouped.Category[i], x1=g, y1=grouped.Category[i],
                    line=dict(color='#636EFA', width = 28))

Complete code:

import plotly.express as px
from plotly.subplots import make_subplots
import plotly as py
import pandas as pd
from plotly import tools

d = {'Mkt_cd': ['Mkt1','Mkt2','Mkt3','Mkt4','Mkt5','Mkt1','Mkt2','Mkt3','Mkt4','Mkt5'],
       'Category': ['Apple','Orange','Grape','Mango','Orange','Mango','Apple','Grape','Apple','Orange'],
           'CategoryKey': ['Mkt1Apple','Mkt2Orange','Mkt3Grape','Mkt4Mango','Mkt5Orange','Mkt1Mango','Mkt2Apple','Mkt3Grape','Mkt4Apple','Mkt5Orange'],
            'Current': [15,9,20,10,20,8,10,21,18,14],
           'Goal': [50,35,21,44,20,24,14,29,28,19]
     }
dataset  = pd.DataFrame(d)

grouped = dataset.groupby('Category', as_index=False).sum()

fig = px.bar(grouped, y='Category', x = ['Current'],
             orientation = 'h', barmode='overlay', opacity = 1,
             color_discrete_sequence = px.colors.qualitative.Plotly[1:])

fig['data'][0].width = 0.4
fig['data'][0].marker.line.width = 0

for i, g in enumerate(grouped.Goal):
    fig.add_shape(type="rect",
                    x0=g+1, y0=grouped.Category[i], x1=g, y1=grouped.Category[i],
                    line=dict(color='#636EFA', width = 28))
f = fig.full_figure_for_development(warn=False)
fig.show()

You can use Plotly Express and then directly access the figure object as @vestland described, but personally I prefer to use graph_objects to make all of the changes in one place.

I'll also point out that since you are stacking bars in one chart, you don't need subplots. You can create a graph_object with fig = go.Figure() and add traces to get stacked bars, similar to what you already did.

For question 1, if you are using go.Bar(), you can pass a width parameter. However, this is in units of the position axis, and since your y-axis is categorical, width=1 will fill the entire category, so I have chosen width=0.25 for the red bar, and width=0.3 (slightly larger) for the blue bar since that seems like it was your intention.

For question 2, the only thing that comes to mind is a hack. Split the bars into two sections (one with height = original height - 1), and set its opacity to 0 so that it is transparent. Then place down bars of height 1 on top of the transparent bars.

If you don't want the traces to show up in the legend, you can set this individually for each bar by passing showlegend=False to fig.add_trace, or hide the legend entirely by passing showlegend=False to the fig.update_layout method.

import plotly.express as px
import plotly.graph_objects as go
# from plotly.subplots import make_subplots
import plotly as py
import pandas as pd
from plotly import tools

d = {'Mkt_cd': ['Mkt1','Mkt2','Mkt3','Mkt4','Mkt5','Mkt1','Mkt2','Mkt3','Mkt4','Mkt5'],
       'Category': ['Apple','Orange','Grape','Mango','Orange','Mango','Apple','Grape','Apple','Orange'],
           'CategoryKey': ['Mkt1Apple','Mkt2Orange','Mkt3Grape','Mkt4Mango','Mkt5Orange','Mkt1Mango','Mkt2Apple','Mkt3Grape','Mkt4Apple','Mkt5Orange'],
            'Current': [15,9,20,10,20,8,10,21,18,14],
           'Goal': [50,35,21,44,20,24,14,29,28,19]
     }
dataset  = pd.DataFrame(d)

grouped = dataset.groupby('Category', as_index=False).sum()
data = grouped.to_dict(orient='list')
v_cat = grouped['Category'].tolist()
v_current = grouped['Current']
v_goal = grouped['Goal']

fig = go.Figure()

## you have a categorical plot and the units for width are in position axis units
## therefore width = 1 will take up the entire allotted space
## a width value of less than 1 will be the fraction of the allotted space
fig.add_trace(go.Bar(
    x=v_current,
    y=v_cat,
    marker_color="#ff0000",
    orientation='h',
    width=0.25
    ))

## you can show the right edge of the bar by splitting it into two bars
## with the majority of the bar being transparent (opacity set to 0)
fig.add_trace(go.Bar(
    x=v_goal-1,
    y=v_cat,
    marker_color="#ffffff",
    opacity=0,
    orientation='h',
    width=0.30,
    ))

fig.add_trace(go.Bar(
    x=[1]*len(v_cat),
    y=v_cat,
    marker_color="#1f77b4",
    orientation='h',
    width=0.30,
    ))

fig.update_layout(barmode='relative')
fig.show()