Awesome Plotly with code series (Part 8): How to balance sections of a prominent bar chart | by Jose Parreño | January, 2025

Discover the #1 strategy for managing skyscraper bars on your charts

Welcome to the eighth post in my “Plotly with code” series! If you missed the first one, you can check it out at the link below, or browse mine “one to rule them all” to follow along with the rest of the series or other topics I've written about before.

A short summary of why I am writing this thread

My go-to tool for creating visualizations is Plotly. It's incredibly intuitive, from tracking layers to adding interactions. However, while Plotly is very efficient in practice, it does not come with a “data journalism” template that provides polished charts right out of the box.

That's where this thread comes in – I'm going to share how to turn Plotly's charts into clean, professional-grade charts that meet data journalism standards.