subplots interactivity questions

[ma-galan]

Hi all,
I'm still waiting for the package to be released in conda-forge channels but, in the meantime, I have a couple of questions regarding interactivity in subplots:

• Is there a possibility of creating subplots with shared and synchronized x-axis? meaning that when I zoom in 1 subplot it recreates the zoom in the other subplot.
• can I get information on every data-series (in all subplots) when hover 1 of the series, like this one example from Plotly-Python [https://plotly.com/python/hover-text-and-formatting/#hover-on-subplots]?
• Can I create a vertical hoverline across all subplots showing information of all the data-series in all subplots like the following image?:

thanks all!!

[alshan]

Hi,

• Shared x-axis - yes, see the sharex parameter in gggrid() gggrid()
• The next two items - unfortunately, you cannot do this in lets-plot at the moment. The closest workaround would be to use a dataframe containing all variables needed in both charts, then configure the tooltip to show all these variables in both charts.

As for the conda-forge channel... we're all in the same boat and frankly I have no idea what's going on there. Our PR will celebrate its 1-year anniversary soon :) It's been ready for merging for quite a while now. When will it be merged? Will it be merged at all? No idea.

[alshan]

Currently, pan/zoom works totally independently in each subplot, but keeping shared axis in sync would be a good improvement. I've submitted an issue: #1413

[ma-galan]

Thanks so much @alshan for such a quick reply and action :)).
To close this discussion, I would like to express a few enhancements that I think would be unbelievably valuable for lets-plot and that I really miss when moving from Plotly or Altair:

• For single plots and different series, it would be very useful to see the different series values when hover over 1 of the series. this could be a parameter inside geom_line(), geom_point(), etc. maybe called "tooltip" in which we could have the option to:
  - Only see tooltip information on the data series we are hovering over.
  - See tooltips of ALL data series when hovering over one of them.

• For subplots, via gggrid(), the same tooltips options comented before would be quite useful:
  - Only see tooltip information on the data series we are hovering over.
  - See tooltips of ALL data series in a subplot when hovering over one of them.
  - See tooltips of ALL data series in ALL subplots when hovering over one of them.

• And finally, this one I don't know if it already exists, I couldn't find it, it would be extraordinary if, by clicking on the data-series legend, we could "remove" the data in the plot (while maintaining the legend in case we want to "activate" it again".

Thanks for your support!

[alshan]

The 'interactive legend' feature doesn't exist but it is in our plans.
The 'synchronized tooltips' feature would also be very useful indeed. Thanks!

[alshan]

See #1080, #1415

[ma-galan]

amazing! Thanks so much @alshan for your proactivity.

[alshan]

Hi @ma-galan, in v4.8.0 the default behavior now is "See tooltips of ALL data series when hovering over one of them."
Let's see if this works better for you.

[IKupriyanov-HORIS]

Please note that the plot may switch a to single tooltip mode when different types of layer are present (e.g., geom_line + geom_point). This behaviour can be controlled by disabling the tooltips for secondary layers:

from lets_plot import *
LetsPlot.setup_html()

d = {
    'x': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8],
    'y': [10, 8, 9, 9, 7, 5, 2, 3, 6, 9, 8, 6,10],
    'g': ['a']*6 + ['b']*7
}

ggplot(d, aes(x='x', y='y', color='g')) + \
    geom_line() + \
    geom_point(tooltips="none")  # Without this only the single geom_line OR geom_point tooltip for the nearest data point will be displayed. 

[ma-galan]

Thanks for the quick addition!
I've been testing it and I really like it now. I have a couple of gripes though:

• when I use geom_smooth() in 2 different data-series, only the tooltips of 1 geom_smooth line is shown:

• when using gggrid(), only the tooltips of the series of 1 of the subplots is shown. Ideally, showing the tooltips of ALL the series in ALL the subplots would be beneficial for my use case.

Thanks for all your hard work.