Publications by Plotly Blog
Plotly: Here’s What You Can Do, One Year In
Plotly is now a year old. We wanted to update you on what you can do, and let you know how other folks are using Plotly. For example, NASA scientists and engineers track satellites with Plotly. Google Chrome ships a Plotly Chrome App for high school students and businesses. Reporters at the Washington Post and Wired explain current ev...
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What Can Plotly Do For You? We’ve just posted a full…
What Can Plotly Do For You? We’ve just posted a full length piece that answers the “who, what, when, where, why, and how” when it comes to Plotly, and you can find it here. In our post, we walk-through all the aspects and benefits of making and sharing this scatter chart with Plotly. The data and original post comes from the Facebook Data S...
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Seven Ways You Can Use A Linear, Polynomial, Gaussian, & Exponential Line Of Best Fit
A line of best fit lets you model, predict, forecast, and explain data. This post shows how you can use a line of best fit to explain college tuition, rats, turkeys, burritos, and the NHL draft. Read on or see our tutorials for more. Contact us if you’re interested in a trial of plotly on-premise. Developers, scroll down to see Python and R. ...
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Six Ways You Can Make Beautiful Graphs (Like Your Favorite Journalists)
This post shows how to make graphs like The Economist, New York Times, Vox, 538, Pew, and Quartz. And you can share–embed your beautiful, interactive graphs in apps, blog posts, and web sites. Read on to learn how. If you like interactive graphs and need to securely collaborate with your team, contact us about Plotly Enterprise. Gr...
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Time Series Graphs & Eleven Stunning Ways You Can Use Them
Many graphs use a time series, meaning they measure events over time. William Playfair (1759 – 1823) was a Scottish economist and pioneer of this approach. Playfair invented the line graph. The graph below–one of his most famous–depicts how in the 1750s the Brits started exporting more than they were importing. This post show...
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Twelve Graphs & Dashboards You Should See On Climate Change, Science, & Public Opinion
Plotly has teamed up with The White House on President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative to explore and explain climate trends. This post is our first contribution. You’ll see interactive graphs about: temperature and CO2 (4), climate change & environmental impact (4), attitudes about global warming (3), and a population graph. If y...
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How To Analyze Data: 21 Graphs that Explain the Same-Sex Marriage Case, Public Opinion, & Supreme Court
The nine Justices on the United States Supreme Court recently took up a case about same-sex marriage. The question in Obergefell v. Hodges is whether states are required to license and recognize marriages between two people of the same sex. This post examines the same-sex marriage case and Court in three sections about: Public opinio...
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How To Analyze Data: Seven Modern Remakes Of The Most Famous Graphs Ever Made
Graphs can be beautiful, powerful tools. Graphs help us explore and explain the world. For hundreds of years, humans have used graphs to tell stories with data. To pay homage to the history of data visualization and to the power of graphs, we’ve recreated the most iconic graphs ever made. Some are remakes of the original shown in ...
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R vs Python: Survival Analysis with Plotly
We just published a new Survival Analysis tutorial. You can find code, an explanation of methods, and six interactive ggplot2 and Python graphs here. How We Built It Survival analysis is a set of statistical methods for analyzing events over time: time to death in biological systems, failure time in mechanical systems, etc. We use...
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3D Graphing & Maps For Excel, R, Python, & MATLAB: Gender & Jobs, a 3D Gaussian, Alcohol, & Random Walks
Showing a third dimension on a flat computer screen is usually hard. Plotly’s interactive 3D graphing changes that. You can zoom, toggle, pan, rotate, spin, see data on the hover, and more. In this post we’ll make 3D graphs with our APIs for Python, R, MATLAB, and Excel. Check out the links, our documentation or our tutorials to learn more a...
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