Any thoughts on implementing a "step mode" for the scatter trace?
I thinks the need to display stepped data is quite frequent (to display error count over time for example). Doing it by programatically adding fake points at the bottom of the step is the only workaround I thought about and it doesn't sound like a great way to do it.
Here is what I mean by step chart:

(Source: http://www.highcharts.com/stock/demo/step-line)
Sorry about linking them here, but in fact quite a lot of others charting library also support this.
Oh, I missed this parameter in the doc. And since I couldn't find any examples...
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!
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Try https://plot.ly/~chelsea_lyn/8766.js