v4.14.0 - Faceted and Animated Images and Heatmaps, Inside Tick Labels, Better Axis Type Detection

See the full announcement at https://community.plotly.com/t/announcing-plotly-py-4-14-faceted-and-animated-images-and-heatmaps-inside-tick-labels-better-axis-type-detection/48079

Added

• px.imshow now supports facet_col and animation_frame arguments for visualizing 3-d and 4-d images 2746
• px.defaults now supports color_discrete_map, symbol_map, line_dash_map, labels and category_orders as well as a .reset() method 2957

Fixed

• axes will now auto-type numeric strings as categorical data rather than linear in the default templates 2951

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.58.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. These changes are reflected in the auto-generated plotly.graph_objects module. Notable changes include:
  • a new ticklabelposition attribute to enable positioning tick labels inside the plotting area
  • better support for scaleanchor and matches on cartesian axes for matched square subplots
  • a new autotypenumbers attribute which is now set to strict in the default templates
  • various fixes relating to automargins for small figures