By importing hamilton.plugins.plotly_extensions, you can register two additional materializers for Plotly figures. The to.plotly() creates static image files (docs) and the to.html() outputs interactive HTML files (docs).

You need to install plotly (low-level API) to annotate your function with plotly.graph_objects.Figure even if you are using plotly_express (high-level API) to generate figures.

# 1. define a function returning a `plotly.graph_objects.Figure` in a python module.
def confusion_matrix(...) -> plotly.graph_objects.Figure:
    return plotly.express.imshow(...)

# 2. import the module and create the Apache Hamilton driver
dr = (
    driver.Builder()
    .with_config({...})
    .with_modules(MODULE_NAME)
    .build()
)

# 3. define the materializers
from hamilton.io.materialization import to

materializers = [
    to.plotly(
        dependencies=["confusion_matrix_figure"],
        id="confusion_matrix_png",
        path="./static.png",
    ),
    to.html(
        dependencies=["confusion_matrix_figure"],
        id="confusion_matrix_html",
        path="./interactive.html",
    ),
]

# 4. materialize figures
dr.materialize(*materializers)

Here are a few things to consider when using the plotly materializers:

• Any plotly figure is a subclass of plotly.graph_objects.Figure, including anything from plotly.express, plotly.graph_objects, plotly.figure_factory.
• to.plotly() supports all filetypes of the plotly rendering engine (PNG, SVG, etc.). The output type will be automatically inferred from the path value passed to the materializer. Or, you can specify the file type explicitly as kwarg.
• to.html() outputs an interactive HTML file. These files will be at least ~3Mb each since they include they bundle the plotly JS library. You can reduce that by using the include_plotlyjs kwarg. Read more about it in the documentation at https://plotly.com/python/interactive-html-export/
• to.html() will include the data that's being visually displayed, including what's part of the tooltips, which can grow filesize quickly.