add "out of visible range" arrow for box plots
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Description
We would like to request an option to enable "out of visible range" arrows for boxplots. See below screenshot for an example:
The intention is to show the reader that the range was intentionally chosen to focus on the middle quartiles, as the max and min values are far out.
It would also be interesting to see this for scatter plots, but this a second priority.
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Research direction
Start by locating the box plot implementation and its option definitions in plotly.py, then inspect how visible ranges and outlying extrema are represented. The change is complete when an option can display arrows for box plot values outside the visible range while preserving the focus on the middle quartiles; scatter plots are a lower-priority follow-up.
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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
- 35/100