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y-axis values are displayed in ascending order in scatter plots, version 6.0.1
I am creating a scatter plot in plotly==6.0.1 using the following code and underlying data:
# Code for "Daily Views" trace
fig = go.Figure()
# Create a Plotly figure
fig.add_scatter(
x=daily_views["viewed_date"],
y=daily_views["view_count"],
mode="lines+markers",
name="Daily Views",
)
viewed_date view_count cumulative_views
0 2025-02-20 2 2
1 2025-02-21 14 16
2 2025-02-24 2 18
3 2025-02-25 2 20
4 2025-02-26 3 23
5 2025-02-27 6 29
6 2025-02-28 2 31
7 2025-03-04 1 32
8 2025-03-05 5 37
9 2025-03-06 7 44
10 2025-03-07 1 45
11 2025-03-10 1 46
12 2025-03-12 6 52
13 2025-03-13 2 54
14 2025-03-17 1 55
But the resulting figure displays the y-axis values in ascending order:
The same result is seen on 6.0.0. Downgrading to 5.24.1 fixes the issue:
Full pip freeze:
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anyio==4.8.0
appnope==0.1.4
asttokens==3.0.0
async-property==0.2.2
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celery==5.4.0
certifi==2025.1.31
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click==8.1.8
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dash-core-components==2.0.0
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dash-html-components==2.0.0
dash-iconify==0.1.2
dash-table==5.0.0
dash_ag_grid==31.2.0
dash_design_kit==1.12.0
dash_mantine_components==0.14.4
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pytz==2025.1
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requests==2.32.3
requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
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@sstripps1 I haven't been able to reproduce the issue so far with Plotly 6.0.1 and the code snippet below. I'd like to get to the bottom of this though -- can you share a self-contained code example, or code + CSV?
It looks to me like what's happening in your chart above is for some reason the index column of the dataframe is being used for the y-values instead of view_count -- I can see that the y-values in the chart are ascending numbers from 0-14.
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import pandas as pd
daily_views = pd.DataFrame({
"viewed_date": ["2025-02-20", "2025-02-21", "2025-02-24", "2025-02-25", "2025-02-26", "2025-02-27", "2025-02-28", "2025-03-04", "2025-03-05", "2025-03-06", "2025-03-07", "2025-03-10", "2025-03-12", "2025-03-13", "2025-03-17"],
"view_count": [2, 14, 2, 2, 3, 6, 2, 1, 5, 7, 1, 1, 6, 2, 1],
"cumulative_views": [2, 16, 18, 20, 23, 29, 31, 32, 37, 44, 45, 46, 52, 54, 55],
})
fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_scatter(
x=daily_views["viewed_date"],
y=daily_views["view_count"],
mode="lines+markers",
name="Daily Views",
)
fig.show()
I was able to replicate the issue by wrapping the figure in a ddk.Graph - outside of this the issue doesn't occur.
However, upgrading to ddk==2.0.0 fixes it - so probably no change needed here :)
cc @emilykl