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Online Dashboards: Eight Helpful Tips You Should Hear From Visualization Experts
“There is no such thing as information overload, only bad design” – Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University Edward Tufte The number of organizations working on data-driven projects increased by 125% in the past year. 44% of companies tackle big data “all the time.” 82% of executives...
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How to Analyze Data: 6 Useful Ways To Use Color In Graphs
Effectively using color means your graphs clearly communicate your data. This post shows how. We summarize and apply visualization research to real-world examples. You can make graphs like these with Plotly’s web app, or APIs for Python, MATLAB, and R. For users who want to securely share graphs and data within a team, or create interactive d...
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How to Analyze Data: 6 Useful Ways To Use Color In Graphs
Effectively using color means your graphs clearly communicate your data. This post shows how. We summarize and apply visualization research to real-world examples. You can make graphs like these with Plotly’s web app, or APIs for Python, MATLAB, and R. For users who want to securely share graphs and data within a team, or make interactive das...
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Analyze Data: Five Ways You Can Make Interactive Maps
Plotly’s new map making tools let you tell stories about data as it relates to geography. This post shows five examples of how you can make and style choropleth, subplot, scatter, bubble, and line maps. We made these maps with our APIs for R and Python. In the future, we will also support maps from our web app. Let us know if you have suggestio...
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Analyze Data: Five Ways You Can Make Interactive Maps
Plotly’s new map making tools let you tell stories about data as it relates to geography. This post shows five examples of how you can make and style choropleth, subplot, scatter, bubble, and line maps. We made these maps with our APIs for R and Python. In the future, we will also support maps from our web app. Let us know if you have suggestio...
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Three Fun Facts About Black Friday and Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has been a national holiday in the United States since 1941 and Canada since 1957. Black Friday, while not an official holiday, marks the unofficial of the holiday shopping season. These three graphs show the increasing price of a pound of turkey, turkey production by U.S. state, and the the growing popularity of Black Friday. We mad...
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Three Fun Facts About Black Friday and Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has been a national holiday in the United States since 1941 and Canada since 1957. Black Friday, while not an official holiday, marks the unofficial of the holiday shopping season. These three graphs show the increasing price of a pound of turkey, turkey production by U.S. state, and the the growing popularity of Black Friday. We mad...
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Cone Plots in Plotly with Python
Cone plots (also known as 3-D quiver plots) represent vector fields defined in some region of the 3-D space. A vector field associates to each point of coordinates (x, y, z) a vector of components (u, v, w). In this post, we’ll explore how Plotly’s cone plots can be used to visualize atmospheric wind ????, magnetic fields, a trajectory of t...
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Cone Plots in Plotly with Python
Cone plots (also known as 3-D quiver plots) represent vector fields defined in some region of the 3-D space. A vector field associates to each point of coordinates (x, y, z) a vector of components (u, v, w). In this post, we’ll explore how Plotly’s cone plots can be used to visualize atmospheric wind ?, magnetic fields, a trajectory of the ...
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Streamtubes in Plotly with Python
???? Before we introduce this seriously cool visualization, we’d like to announce that plotly.py has surpassed 5 million downloads! Thank you for helping us reach this milestone! ???? Once Upon a Time ???? It was the year 2008. If you wanted to create 3-D plots for interactive scientific data visualization, the Mayavi Python library was your g...
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