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iplot is unrecognized in Jupyter Notebook

I'm trying to follow along with the following YouTube tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D35m2CdMhVs

I set up the environment through Anaconda and am using Jupyter to code. I imported pandas and plotly for the code and yet the iplot function is not recognized.

The import statements in the code look like this:

import plotly
import plotly.figure_factory as ff
import pandas as pd

This is the specific error message I'm getting:

NameError: name 'iplot' is not defined

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Solution

  • The tutorial is from 2018 and the author specifies the versions of some of the dependencies at the beginning of the tutorial. According to this answer, there has been a change in plotly between v3 and v4. According to the official web site 4.0 came in 2019.

    Please check for compatibility between what is in the tutorial and what the version of the API you're using offers. Also quite often people mix Python 2.x with 3.x (especially if they polute the environment set by Anaconda and similar with direct calls to pip/pip3).