plotly.express.scatter_geo() function cannot generate world map

[xyzzklk]

Metadata

OS: Ubuntu 23
Python version: 3.11.6
Browser: Google Chrome

What I'm trying to do

I'm new to plotly. I'm trying to use the following code to generate a simple world map with some points scattered on it.

import plotly.express as px

lons = [-150.7585, -153.4716, -148.7531, -159.6267, -155.248336791992]
lats = [61.7591, 59.3152, 63.1633, 54.5612, 18.7551670074463]

fig = px.scatter_geo(lat=lats, lon=lons, title="Mark some random points on the world")
fig.show()

Expected behaviour

Plotly opens a new tab in the browser that displays the plot.

Actual behaviour

It displays something like this, which is the grid-like background when creating other figures such as a barchart.

Troubleshooting that has already been done

1. Tried to switch browser to FireFox. The same.
2. Changing the template to template="seaborn". Didn't work.
3. Tried checking console. No JavaScript Errors. cdn.plot.ly is reachable.
   

ping cdn.plot.ly
PING osff.map.fastly.net (151.101.2.217) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 151.101.2.217 (151.101.2.217): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=52.2 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.2.217 (151.101.2.217): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=31.9 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.2.217 (151.101.2.217): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=589 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.2.217 (151.101.2.217): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=34.9 ms
^C
--- osff.map.fastly.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.903/176.875/588.572/237.819 ms

4. Checked chrome://gpu. WebGL(2) is already enabled.
5. Tried other codes, including the sample code in the docs (https://plotly.com/python/scatter-plots-on-maps/#geographical-scatter-plot-with-pxscattergeo). Results in the same display.
6. I tested my simple piece of code on Windows 11 in both Chrome and Edge. Works well (displays a world map plot). But it just doesn't work on my Ubuntu desktop.
7. Tried clearing browser cache. Doesn't work.

I'm completely new to plotly, and I don't know how to debug. Please help me! Many thanks!

[michaelbabyn]

Hi @xyzzklk , I don't have any issues running that code on ubuntu 22.04/python 3.11.6/chrome in a fresh conda env. I wonder if you're using an old version of jupyter that doesn't support the new versions of plotly? If you just install new versions of both they should be compatible though:

conda create -n p311 python=3.11.6
pip install plotly jupyter pandas
jupyter notebook