[Request] Hexagonal heatmap / binning

[mafar]

Dear Devs,
Is it poosible to make SOM plots in plotly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map

D3 References :

1. https://gist.github.com/nbremer/6052814#file-thumbnail-png
2. http://bl.ocks.org/nbremer/raw/6052681/

Matlab References :

1. https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ref/plotsomplanes.html
2. https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/self-organizing-maps.html?s_tid=CRUX_lftnav

R References :

1. https://www.shanelynn.ie/self-organising-maps-for-customer-segmentation-using-r/
2. https://clarkdatalabs.github.io/soms/SOM_NBA

[alexcjohnson]

My first impression is the "self-organizing" part involves more analysis / nuance / judgment than we want to include in plotly.js - leaving that part to a data preparation step prior to sending us the form to be displayed. But if your question is about adding a hexagonal heatmap / binning variant, that's definitely something we'd consider adding - I've added a comment to this effect to the master "new charts wishlist" issue #2221

[mafar]

hexagonal heatmap / binning variant is what needed.
ANd yes I would suggest to keep analysis part separate since it is more scientifc in nature and plotly should not deal with such calculations

I updated my description with more references. Thank you

[alexcjohnson]

Great, thanks for clarifying. Updated the title to reflect this.

[gvwilson]

Hi - we are currently trying to tidy up Plotly's public repositories to help us focus our efforts on things that will help users most. Since this issue has been sitting for several years, I'm going to close it. If it's still a concern, we'd be grateful if you could open a new issue (with a short reproducible example if appropriate) so that we can add it to our backlog. Thanks for your help - @gvwilson