Adding Tooltips to a Plotly Plot

This lesson is called Adding Tooltips to a Plotly Plot, part of the Interactive Dashboards with Shiny course. This lesson is called Adding Tooltips to a Plotly Plot, part of the Interactive Dashboards with Shiny course.

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Your Turn

Add more aesthetics to your ggplot aes() statement in the plotly/assignment_03/app.R file, such as movie_title="title".

Make sure that your app runs and that you can see the tooltip popup.

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Kelly Stenhoff • April 28, 2025

When I add the aesthetic 'lead = lead_actor_actress' I get the following error message: 'Error: input string 24 is invalid in this locale'. However, the other variables seem to work. What could be causing this error?

David Keyes Founder • May 2, 2025

What are the values for lead_actor_actress? From some quick Googling, this appears to be related to character encoding (e.g. using characters from, say, Chinese). Any chance that's what's going on here?