Awesome Plotly with Code Series (Part 4): Grouping Bars vs Multi-Coloured Bars

Do technicolour bars really help make a story clear?

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Welcome to the fourth post in my “Plotly with code” series! If you missed the first one, you can check it out in the link below, or browse through my “one post to rule them all” to follow along with the entire series or other topics I have previously written about.

A short summary on why I am writing this series

My go-to tool for creating visualisations is Plotly. It’s incredibly intuitive, from layering traces to adding interactivity. However, whilst Plotly excels at functionality, it doesn’t come with a “data journalism” template that offers polished charts right out of the box.