Ternary Plots¶

Make ternary plots in Plotly and Python!¶

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import plotly
plotly.__version__

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'1.9.9'

Basic Tenary Plot with Markers¶

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from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode, iplot, plot
import plotly.graph_objs as go
init_notebook_mode()

rawData = [
    {'journalist':75,'developer':25,'designer':0,'label':'point 1'},
    {'journalist':70,'developer':10,'designer':20,'label':'point 2'},
    {'journalist':75,'developer':20,'designer':5,'label':'point 3'},
    {'journalist':5,'developer':60,'designer':35,'label':'point 4'},
    {'journalist':10,'developer':80,'designer':10,'label':'point 5'},
    {'journalist':10,'developer':90,'designer':0,'label':'point 6'},
    {'journalist':20,'developer':70,'designer':10,'label':'point 7'},
    {'journalist':10,'developer':20,'designer':70,'label':'point 8'},
    {'journalist':15,'developer':5,'designer':80,'label':'point 9'},
    {'journalist':10,'developer':10,'designer':80,'label':'point 10'},
    {'journalist':20,'developer':10,'designer':70,'label':'point 11'},
];

def makeAxis(title, tickangle): 
    return {
      'title': title,
      'titlefont': { 'size': 20 },
      'tickangle': tickangle,
      'tickfont': { 'size': 15 },
      'tickcolor': 'rgba(0,0,0,0)',
      'ticklen': 5,
      'showline': True,
      'showgrid': True
    }

data = [{ 
    'type': 'scatterternary',
    'mode': 'markers',
    'a': [i for i in map(lambda x: x['journalist'], rawData)],
    'b': [i for i in map(lambda x: x['developer'], rawData)],
    'c': [i for i in map(lambda x: x['designer'], rawData)],
    'text': [i for i in map(lambda x: x['label'], rawData)],
    'marker': {
        'symbol': 100,
        'color': '#DB7365',
        'size': 14,
        'line': { 'width': 2 }
    },
    }]

layout = {
    'ternary': {
        'sum': 100,
        'aaxis': makeAxis('Journalist', 0),
        'baxis': makeAxis('<br>Developer', 45),
        'caxis': makeAxis('<br>Designer', -45)
    },
    'annotations': [{
      'showarrow': False,
      'text': 'Simple Ternary Plot with Markers',
        'x': 0.5,
        'y': 1.3,
        'font': {'size': 15}
    }]
}

fig = {'data': data, 'layout': layout}
iplot(fig, validate=False)

Soil Types Ternary Plot¶

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import json
from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode, iplot
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import urllib2     # note this will only work in 2.7 now, will upload six package later for compatibility

init_notebook_mode()

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url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/davenquinn/988167471993bc2ece29/raw/f38d9cb3dd86e315e237fde5d65e185c39c931c2/data.json'
req = urllib2.Request(url)
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
f = opener.open(req)
json = json.loads(f.read())

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def create_data(json):
    
    return ([dict(name=k, type='scatterternary', mode='lines', 
             a=map(lambda x: x['clay'],json[k]), 
             b=map(lambda x: x['sand'],json[k]),
             c=map(lambda x: x['silt'],json[k]), 
             line={'color': '#c00'}) for k in json])

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data = create_data(json)

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def makeAxis(title): 
    return {
            'title': title,
            'ticksuffix': '%',
            'min': 0.01,
            'linewidth': 2,
            'ticks': 'outside',
            'ticklen': 8,
            'showgrid': True,
    }

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layout = {
        'ternary': {
                    'sum': 100,
                    'aaxis': makeAxis('Clay'),
                    'baxis': makeAxis('Sand'),
                    'caxis': makeAxis('Silt')
                    },
        'showlegend': False,
        'width': 700,
        'annotations': [{
            'showarrow': False,
            'text': 'Replica of Daven Quinn\'s block',
            'x': 0.50,
            'y': 1.3
        }]
        }

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fig = {'data': data, 'layout': layout}

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iplot(fig, validate=False)

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# 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 publisher --upgrade
# import publisher
# publisher.publish(
#     'ternary.ipynb', 'python/ternary-plots/', 'Python Ternary Plots | plotly',
#     'How to make Ternary plots in Python with Plotly.',
#     name = 'Ternary',
#     thumbnail='thumbnail/ternary.jpg', language='python',
#     page_type='example_index', has_thumbnail='true', display_as='scientific', order=32)  

Requirement already up-to-date: publisher in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/publisher/publisher.py:53: UserWarning:

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