enable color by timedelta in Plotly Express
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Description
When you domain is time series data, you sooner or later have to plot data of the Timedelta type. It would be nice to be able to understand what I am looking at when plotting, and coloring by, such data, which is hard when it is interpreted as an int in both hover text and color bar tick text.
Similar to #2450, but covering the timedelta data type, rather than datetime.
See also #799 and #801 for similar requests for the x and y axes.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the related datetime request in #2450 and the similar axis requests in #799 and #801, then trace how Plotly Express handles Timedelta values for hover text and color scales. Done means timedelta color values are presented meaningfully rather than as integers in hover text and color-bar tick labels.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100