px.box() Change symbol marker

[blu3ser]

Hi, I am trying to change the type of symbols that px.box plots when I pass the points='all'. Is there any way to change the symbol type for each data?

Something like:

fig = px.box(df,
x='Class',
y='Range',
color='Version',
title='Dispersion Data',
hover_data=['Result'],
points='all',
symbol='MarkerSymbol')
)

where MarkerSymbols contains: 'circle-open' or 'x-thin'

Thank you

[AniketP04]

Hey @blu3ser, just go through this link. I hope this will resolve your issues.

[blu3ser]

Hi @AniketP04

Thank you for the answer, but I can't find anything to help me, I don't know if I have expressed myself correctly, I put an example to illustrate it.

I have a dataframe with 3 columns. Name, Range and Class.

When creating a px.box to see the dispersion of the column Range, I would like that for the Class column, I can choose the type of symbols that are represented when I select the allpoints. That is to say
Name, Rank, Class
Item#1, 10, circle
Item#2, 5, square
Item#3,20, circle

So, I can assign every class a distinct symbol, something similar to what color_discrete_map do with px.bar for example

Thank you

[alexcjohnson]

@blu3ser no, I'm afraid we don't have a way right now to give each point a different symbol (or any other attribute for that matter, such as size or color). This would need to be a feature request for plotly.js. You could maybe work around this by hiding all points and then adding the points in a scatter trace - but that also doesn't give quite the right result because it won't jitter the points horizontally (a highly-requested feature on its own but hasn't made it to the top of our list plotly/plotly.js#299)

[blu3ser]

Hi @alexcjohnson thank you for your answer, no problem, I'll try to be more creative ;)

Thank you

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