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CSV or comma-delimited-values is a very popular format for storing structured data. In this tutorial, we will see how to plot beautiful graphs using csv data, and Pandas. We will learn how to import csv data from an external source (a url), and plot it using Plotly and pandas.

First we import the data and look at it.

```python
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/2014_apple_stock.csv')
df.head()
```

### Plot from CSV with Plotly Express

```python
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px

df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/2014_apple_stock.csv')

fig = px.line(df, x = 'AAPL_x', y = 'AAPL_y', title='Apple Share Prices over time (2014)')
fig.show()
```

### Plot from CSV in Dash

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```python hide_code=true
from IPython.display import IFrame
snippet_url = 'https://python-docs-dash-snippets.herokuapp.com/python-docs-dash-snippets/'
IFrame(snippet_url + 'plot-data-from-csv', width='100%', height=1200)
```

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### Plot from CSV with `graph_objects`

```python
import pandas as pd
import plotly.graph_objects as go

df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/2014_apple_stock.csv')

fig = go.Figure(go.Scatter(x = df['AAPL_x'], y = df['AAPL_y'],
                  name='Share Prices (in USD)'))

fig.update_layout(title=dict(text='Apple Share Prices over time (2014)'),
                   plot_bgcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)',
                   showlegend=True)

fig.show()
```

#### Reference

See https://plotly.com/python/getting-started for more information about Plotly's Python API!
