title: Horizontal box plot with multiple boxes in one row with plotly
body: <p>I am new to plotly and this is one of my first attempt to visualise data in an interactive way. And now I have run into a conceptual problem.
  I want to plot horizontal boxes plot with plotly and I am following <a href="https://plot.ly/python/box-plots/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial on horizontal box graphs in plotly</a> however having the data in the structure like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data = [
      {
          'x': [0.2, 0.2, 0.6, 1.0, 0.5, 0.4, 0.2, 0.7, 0.9, 0.1, 0.5, 0.3],
          'y': ['day 1', 'day 1', 'day 1', 'day 1', 'day 1', 'day 1', 'day 2', 'day 2', 'day 2', 'day 2', 'day 2', 'day 2'],
          'name':'kale',
          'marker': {
              'color': '#3D9970'
          },
          'boxmean': False,
          'orientation': 'h',
          "type": "box",
      }]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>You can only plot one continuous box in a row.
  What I want to achieve is something like:
   <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Jh3p.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Jh3p.jpg" alt="desired plot"></a>
  I have a list of actions and I want to plot them to show which actions are performed at what time in a day and how long they last. Some of the actions are performed multiple times in one day, and hence I need a way to visualise it.
  Do you know if this is even possible with plotly?</p>
  
  <p>If you want to down vote my question, please provide a constructive critique on why you are doing so.</p>