Violin scalemode has no effect
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Description
I have set up the violin scalemode to "width" but the width of the individual distributions are clearly not all equal, even though it should be according to he documentation of plotly.graph_objects.Violin

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Start with the Violin documentation linked in the issue and reproduce the reported scalemode="width" behavior using the attached example or an equivalent minimal case. Trace how violin width scaling is handled and verify the fix by confirming that individual distributions have equal widths when this mode is selected.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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