prevent scatter text overlap
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Description
It would be useful to have a setting to exclude text labels from being graphed if they would overlap with other labels.
For instance, ggplot2 in R has a check_overlap parameter - when true, it produces a graph like this:
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Research direction
Start by locating the scatter text-label handling in plotly.py and compare the requested behavior with ggplot2's check_overlap example. Done means a setting can exclude labels that would overlap other labels and the resulting scatter plot matches the requested behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100