Making interactive plots with Plotly

In this final section, we’ll use the Plotly library to build some interactive plots. Plotly is a completely separate visualization package from the Matplotlib package, which we’ve been using throughout this book. A plot made with Plotly is richly interactive, allowing tooltips on mouse hover, zooming in and out of a plot, and all sorts of other interactivities.

If you’re familiar with Tableau or Power BI, Plotly brings similar interactivity to Python. Additionally, the Plotly team also built Dash, a library for creating web-based dashboards. A full tutorial for creating such a dashboard is beyond the scope of this book, but I encourage you to learn about this valuable tool if you would like to share your Prophet forecasts with a wide audience.

Prophet does not automatically install Plotly as a dependency, so before we begin, you will need to install it on your machine. It is a simple process and can be accomplished through...