Source: Campaign

Imagine: You have been working at a prestigious organization of your choice for 6 months. Not a newbie anymore, you are making noise and getting noticed. Kicking ass and taking names, really. Next thing you know, your boss is calling on you to represent your team at a board meeting. The 10-minute impression you leave on its members will greatly influence your team’s funding for the next financial year.

Sure, you could take the easy way out – slap together some bland PowerPoint slides, lots of text, little color, and surely not enough figures. Plotly and Formidable have a different view.

Introducing Spectacle Editor, the world’s first open source presentation editor.

Instead of sending your colleagues for an extra cup of coffee because your presentation put them to sleep, give them a little virtual caffeine (okay, maybe that’s a stretch!) and bring your data –your presentation– to life.

To show you how easy it is, we recreated the first 12 slides of @BenedictEvans Mobile Ate the World presentation. If you like this, you might also like the recent post we dedicated to Mobile Ate the World.

1. Download Spectacle Editor

It is available for Mac and Windows.

2. Start Designing Your Presentation

Seriously, it’s that easy. The controls are very intuitive – you’ve only got text, image or Plotly to choose from. We’ve recreated the title slide to Mobile Ate The World below.

3. Adding a Plotly Graph…

…is super simple. Just click the Plotly button atop the interface onto one of your slides. Before you can add a graph, you’ll have to login to your Plotly account and then paste the URL to the graph of your choice into the “Embed Url” field.

4. Adding an Image

Simply click on the “Image” button atop the interface. A default image will appear on the slide and then you can upload your own image via the right panel.

5. Customize Your Masterpiece

On the right panel, you can adjust the transition type between slides. Depending on what element (text, graph, etc), you’ll be able to make other adjustments (i.e. change text font, color, and size).

6. Choose How You’d like to Present

Perhaps you’d like the meeting’s attendees to have a copy of the presentation before you get started. Easily download a PDF in the “File” dropdown. If not, feel free to present inside of Spectacle Editor and take full advantage of interactive Plotly graphs.

7. Upload to Plotly

The “Upload” button in the upper left of Spectacle Editor ports your presentation to your Plotly account.

Simply head to Plotly to see your presentation.

Even present from there!

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Over 4 million blog posts have been written today.

Let that marinate for a second. That’s one and a half blog posts for every person living in the City of Toronto. That’s a post for every person living in Oklahoma, 2 for every person living in New Mexico, and 7 for every Wyomingite.

So… is it worth it? No simple answer: It depends on what you are after. If you are in search of piles of cash, overnight internet fame, and celebrity status … move along. However, if you are blogging on a passion of yours, find writing fulfilling, or otherwise enjoy storytelling – by all means, toss your hat in the ring.

We blog because we dig cool content, because its an outlet for our creativity, want to show off what our awesome users come up with, and frankly to show that we aren’t just a collection of coding nerds!

Motivation from this blog post stems from –you guessed it– another blog post. On Scribblrs. Without further ado, we present the data behind blogging in 2016…

Head here to view an interactive presentation of the post below using Spectacle Editor.

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1. 3.4 Billion Folks are Online, Nearly Half the World’s Population

Who is your audience? This essential question must be answered before beginning your blogging endeavor if it has any hopes of being successful. Fortunately, there are a mammoth amount of folks online nowadays, so whether your blog is about Pokémon GO, Korean Pancakes, or how many times Donald Trump blamed global warming on China, someone out there will share your interest.

2. The Competition is Also Huge …

While your potential audience is pretty massive, so is your competition. At the time of writing this blog, there were 1,088,653,627 websites. That’s over 3 websites for every person living in the United States or about 30 for every person living in Canada.

Chances are, someone is already blogging on your topic of interest. Browsing the competition will give you a feel for “what’s out there” – and might stimulate you to provide a fresh take.

3. Google is Infinitely Important

In 2012 there were more than 1,000,000,000 (1 trillion) more Google searches than in 2000. It’s safe to say that during 2016, Google searches may be near or exceed 2 trillion. What does that mean? Well, for one, Google is a fantastic way to drive traffic to your site BUT you must be SEO-savvy.

4. Your Google Result is also Infinitely Important

Reinforcing the need to be SEO-savvy … the top 4 Google results get 83% of page one organic clicks.

5. Choose an Intuitive Blogging Platform

Wordpress powers nearly 60% of all blogs (almost 10 times its closest competitor) and 25% of all websites, reported W³Techs. Why? Redditors describe the Wordpress interface as “ridiculously flexible, free and easy to use, allows anyone…to get the job done!”

6. Some Domain Names are Insanely Expensive … Yours Doesn’t Have to Be

While your domain name won’t cost $90m like lasvegas.com, a thoughtful, catchy domain name can play a key role in promoting your site and building a killer online brand. Scribblrs says, “It needs to be memorable, easy to spell, and not too long.”

In most cases, your domain name should only cost about $20 a year.

7. Not All About Text

A picture is worth 1000 words. The one below speaks for itself.

8. Growth in Online Video Usage

Online video usage grew significantly between 2014 and 2015 across Europe and in Japan. This may be a hint that the future of blogging involves short and “snackable” videos that keep the user engaged and craving more.

9. Content Posted vs Shared by Weekday

According to eMarketer.com, Tuesday and Wednesday are the most popular days to post content. However, only 14.1% of the 18% of content posted is shared socially.

On the other hand, Saturday is the most popular day to share content. Use this information to your advantage – perhaps publish your content on various days of the week, at different times. By trial and error, you’ll figure out what works best for your blog.

10. Can You Make a Living?

Using ProBlogger readers as a “proxy” for those who blog for a living, it is revealed that a majority of folks –38%– make less than $10 a month on their blog. A mere 13% make more than $1000 a month or more, and about 10% of folks pull in a livable income. So, in short, if you’re in it for the money, blogging might not be for you.

33,900,000 miles.

54,600,000 kilometers.

200 tons (400,000 lbs, 180,000 kg) of fuel. An average travel time of 2,760 hours(115 days). That’s roughly 69 round trips from New York to New Zealand.

MARS 👽.

Does the thought of leaving Earth and becoming one of the first inhabitants of the Red Planet tempt you?

Well, you’re in luck.

SpaceX wants to head there. To make “humans a multiplanetary species.”

“SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.”

But first, you should know a little bit about Mars … and the rest of our Solar System. That’s why we’re here.

These interactive graphs were made using Plotly’s web app. To securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, sign up for a Plotly Professional plan or contact us about Plotly On-Premise.

We’ve also made a Mars presentation using our newest addition to the Plotly-tool stable: Spectacle Editor (a joint effort with Formidable). View it here.

Mars

1. The Average Surface Temperature of Mars is 85ºC Less than Earth

Yup. Bring the Northface. Heck, bring 5. You can wear it under your spacesuit. Mars average surface temperature is, annually, 40ºC colder than the North Pole. Humans on Mars would need heated habitats.

Note, however, that Mars does have seasons – so the “chill” fluctuates throughout the year. The temperature can dip as low as -143ºC (-225ºF) at the poles during the winter but rise as high as 35ºC (95ºF) at the equator during summer at the equator.

2. Mars Has 1/10 the Mass of Earth

The fact that Mars has only 10 percent of the mass of the Earth has been a long-standing puzzle for solar system theorists. Research has indicated that Mars may have grown from a pebble of solar system dust – this theory goes on to state that dust grows toward a “pebble” which then gravitationally collapses into an asteroid. The asteroid then collides with other “pebbles,” promoting growth [toward a planet]. Mars, however, may not have been in an ideal position in the solar system for such collision and growth, researchers say.

3. Mars’ Daylength Almost Identical to Earth

The length of a day on Mars is an Earth day plus approximately 40 minutes. Compared to other bodies in our solar system like Jupiter, whose day lasts 10 hours, and Venus, where a day is equal to about 116 Earth days, the similarity is rather astounding.

4. Earth Has More than Double Mars’ Gravitational Force

Mars offers the quickest weight loss plan in the solar system. The gravity on Mars’ surface is much lower than it is on Earth -– 62% lower to be exact. At just 0.38 of the Earth standard, a person who weighs 100 kg (220 lbs) on Earth would weigh just 38 kg (84 lbs) on Mars.

The long term effects of such gravity levels remain a key aspect of any colonization efforts. Studies performed on International Space Station (ISS) astronauts, mentioned that mission durations ranging from 4-6 months show a maximum loss of 30% muscle performance and maximum loss of 15% muscle mass.

5. Mars’ Orbital Velocity Less Than Earth’s

The orbital velocity of Mars is 80% of Earth’s. While that may seem “close” it contributes to the fact that a year on Mars about 687 Earth days.

6. Mars Has a Lower Density than Earth

Density plays a vital role in planetary surface gravity. Mars is about 71% as dense as Earth, setting the planet up to have notably less gravitational force than Earth, as discussed above.

7. Planet Habitability Index

Astronomers know of 100s of other planets that orbit stars –much like Earth does– but outside of our solar system. These are known as exoplanets. Astrobiology researchers, led by Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University, have come up with an index that aims to describe just how friendly to life such exoplanets might be. The Gliese-581 system, around 20 light-years from Earth, is the highest-scoring group of exoplanets. Titan, a “Saturnian moon covered in hydrocarbon lakes,” is the 2nd most habitable place in our solar system, ahead of Mars.

8. What Would it Cost?

According to SpaceX, the first ship to Mars would be most expensive: for every kilogram, the cost would be around $500. However, through reuse of ships, SpaceX’s architecture would allow for a significant reduction in the cost to Mars [to near $140/kg by ship 12].

9. Who is Most Interested?

Using Google Trends, we analyzed the last 5 years worth of U.S. Google searches for “Mars.” Most interested? Iowa. Least? A tie between North Dakota and Oregon.

Plotly dashboards give you the glitz & glamour of D3 charts without having to write a line of code. They can match your brand perfectly and are shareable with simple web links. We wanted an alternative to the usual dashboard platforms that feel heavy, kludgy, expensive, and clunky. Plotly dashboards aren’t your dad’s dashboards: They’re built for today’s web and make you look like the smartest person in the room.

We present to you 3 Plotly dashboards on clean energy, with inspiration from The Economist.

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The United States is 2nd.

2nd usually implies something good; for instance 2nd place in a race, runner-up in a basketball tournament, or the silver medalist in an Olympic event. However, in the case of total carbon dioxide emissions, 2nd is not the place you want to be in.

The United States, in 2011, was responsible for 17% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. There is no question that population plays a role in CO₂ emissions; however, the U.S. placed 3rd in the per capita CO₂ emissions category.

President Obama has unleashed a variety of aggressive tactics to reduce carbon emissions, such as the creation of new “clean energy” jobs and technologies and the initiative to make America more energy independent. In 2015, he announced new, historic carbon emission standards for power plants.

Despite his unprecedented steps to attempt to combat climate change, efforts –both domestically and internationally– may sadly be too little, too late.

It goes without saying that Mother Nature is pulling off some unprecented stuff of her own this year:

This is not normal. Global #seaice area…

(via https://t.co/qwD3k8Ku3h) pic.twitter.com/LppEwpCidm
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) November 16, 2016

The globe is on track for its warmest year on record and no country is immune to the effects of a changing climate, not even the most isolated:

Striking warmth: With data in through October, 2016 remains on track to be the WARMEST year on record (107 years) in #NewZealand. pic.twitter.com/jN9Sg4G9TH
— Niwa Weather (@NiwaWeather) November 3, 2016

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1. CO₂ Emissions

America is often lambasted as a carbon villain, writes The Economist. And for good reason: The country is responsible for 15% of global CO₂ emissions. Nevertheless, it is a leader in non-hydropower renewable energy [see next dashboard].

The graph in the bottom left shows some promise. Note how CO₂ emissions have decreased in recent years, mostly coinciding with Obama’s presidency and his largely unprecedented climate initiatives.

The graph in the bottom right indicates that coal is behind about 20% of American CO₂ emissions.

2. Renewable Energy

The use of coal [dashboard above] has tailed off very slightly in recent years. As such, production from renewables has slowly picked up. Electricity generation by way of wind in 2014 was 400% greater than it was in 2000.

Brazil is the global leader in renewable energy, generating nearly 80% of its energy in that fashion – led by hydropower.

Brazil, Canada, and Germany are the only countries that generate more than 20% of energy through renewables (as of 2013).

3. A Bright Future?

The Economist reported that global investment in renewable energy rose by a sixth in 2014, to $270 billion. Most impressive was the rise shown by developing countries – the year-over-year change was about (+) $25 billion.

New investment in renewable energy has increased by about 400% since the year 2004 (!)

The graph on the right indicates that the cost of the generation of energy through the use of solar power has actually fallen below that of oil. Of course, the prevalence of solar energy instruments is still low –and minuscule compared to oil– but continued growth is anticipated.

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When someone asks you how your weekend was, you don’t start off by (potentially) boring them with the unnecessary details of how your Aunt Sally’s train was late and you wasted your afternoon waiting – no!

Generally speaking, you’ll say “it was great” or “it wasn’t so good,” and then go into more detail if the asker inquires further.

We dare you to take this seemingly unrelated piece of advice and apply it to your blog posts and articles.

Instead of creating a vertical “freight train” of graphs and content in your next blog post, consolidate the most important bits and get to the point faster using Plotly dashboards and presentations.

In this post, we demonstrate how a PitchBook article, chock-full of cool graphs and informative text, can easily be spun into a Plotly dashboard and presentation.

The resulting content is:

1. In One Place: It is reported that web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. That should be incentive enough to produce a compact article and reduce the scrolling that is necessary. Plotly embeddable dashboards & presentations can help you accomplish this!

2. Social Media Gold: Set your data into action and make an animated GIF of your dashboard for Twitter.

3. Downright Stylish: Plotly graphs and dashboards use D3.js, the gold standard of interactive web graphics. See for yourself, below!

Dashboard:https://plot.ly/dashboard/Dreamshot:8424

Presentation:https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/8423/pitchbook-1/#/?_k=tu4ldl

1. Making a Dashboard with Plotly is Super Easy

Our 10-step tutorial should have you rolling along in minutes.

2. Turn Scroll-Fest into No-Mess

Instead of forcing readers to scroll and view individual graphs, a dashboard can help you to maximize your space.

3. Cleverly Customizable

You can re-size, re-shape, and re-style the dashboard to match that of your organization. We did just that in our PitchBook example.

4. Content that is Perfect for Presentations

Alternatively, you could embed a presentation in your article to truly eliminate the length and make the read completely undaunting to your readers. Plotly and Formidable’s Spectacle Editor allows you to do just that.

Simply create your graphs on Plotly, download Spectacle Editor, and bring your presentation to life.

For more details on best Spectacle Editor practices, check out our guide.

5. Presentations that Define Utility

Not really digging the presentation-embed in your article? Cool, when you share the link to your post on social media, include include an animated GIF of your presentation with it! Or, use it to build the best talk during your company’s next seminar and come away looking like the smartest person in the room. No more blurry, detail-lacking graphs – easy pan and zoom functions make it so even the person sitting in the way back can see exactly the moment that business was booming the most.

6. Gamechanging for Social Media

If you article has 15 images, which are you going to use? It can be a tough decision. We want the decision to be easier and to boost engagement across your social media platforms. Quite easily take a screenshot (or two) of your Plotly dashboard and share that with your Tweet. GIFs are in, so if you have the technical know-how, pop one of those babies in and watch the retweets roll in.

“Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized,” says principal of the consultancy Perceptual Edge Steven Few.

“The greatest display technology in the world won’t solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you’ll never use it, even if it’s filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don’t let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste.”

Therefore, instead of presenting a vertical “freight train” of graphs and content at your next board meeting, craft a “virtual display of the most important information needed to achieve your objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance.”

Dashboard from Stephen Few that combines several bullet graphs along with Edward Tufte’s sparklines to convey a great deal of information in a small amount of space.

Surprise (& wow) your colleagues at your next meeting by using Plotly dashboards and presentations.

In this post, we show off 3 separate dashboards, influenced by Dribbble, FiveThirtyEight, and NTHSA.

1. Dribbble

This dashboard allows you to instantaneously take your organization’s pulse.

Using Plotly’s Streaming API, you can set your sales data up to update automatically following each transaction. Use a heatmap to track each member of your sales team’s performance and the “slice” (pie chart) to monitor what types of sales your team is making.

Dashboard

Presentation
Dribbble_Presentation

2. FiveThirtyEight

This FiveThirtyEight dashboard is a great example of how you can spice up your blog posts using Plotly’s dashboards. Since our dashboards are 100% customizable, you can match your company’s theme very easily.

Furthermore, your content is:

1. In One Place: It is reported that web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. That should be incentive enough to produce a compact article and reduce the scrolling that is necessary. Plotly embeddable dashboards & presentations can help you accomplish this!

2. Social Media Gold: Set your data into action and make an animated GIF of your dashboard for Twitter.

3. Downright Stylish: Plotly graphs and dashboards use D3.js, the gold standard of interactive web graphics.

Dashboard

Presentation
FiveThirtyEight_Presentation

3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Our final example showcases National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data in both a dashboard and presentation. The dashboard “tells you precisely what you need to know in an instant,” following Few’s advice to a t: U.S. road fatalities are decreasing. The dashboard spectacularly accomplishes its goal of being a “virtual display of the most important information” (i.e. meat and potatoes!).

Dashboard

Presentation
NHTSA_Presentation

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections are a year away. The primaries are heating up. We thought we would take a look at the trends and numbers. We made and embedded the interactive graphs below with Plotly’s free web product and APIs. So can you. For users who want to securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, contact us about Plotly on-premise.

Electoral College Map

The Electoral College elects the new President. Voters in each U.S. state vote for a ticket for President and Vice-President. Then Electoral College voters from each state vote for candidates on behalf of their state. Except for Maine and Nebraska, the states use a winner-take-all approach. Below are the current number of electoral votes per state. The number of votes is tied to population. We can make this map with R and Python.

2016 Electoral College Votes<br>(Hover for breakdown)

Electoral College By State

For an alternative view, we can make a plot that shows the number of votes per state.

<br>Electoral College Votes by U.S. State

Democratic Primary Voter Leanings

Before we vote for a President, each Party runs a primary to pick their candidate. The plot below shows the top three contenders in Democratic primary polls–that is, who do likely Democratic primary voters plan to vote for. Hillary Clinton holds a lead, with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden coming in second and third. To see the numbers for the other candidates, toggle the traces on and off in the legend. Hover your mouse to see which poll each point comes from.

2016 National Democratic Primary Poll Tracker

Republican Primary Voter Leanings

The plot below shows the top three contenders in Republican primary polls. Donald Trump has recently taken the lead, with Ben Carson and Jeb Bush coming in next.

2016 National Republican Primary Poll Tracker

Favorability & Familiarity

The plot below illustrates how quickly momentum can change. Gallup was not even polling yet for Donald Trump when this July 7-10 poll was administered. Trump now leads national Republican polls. The survey concluded that:

“Hillary Clinton is currently the best known and best liked of 16 potential 2016 presidential candidates tested…”

A more updated view of the Republican field shows how Trump stacks up.

Presidential Favorability Ratings

Much has been written about the recent increase in the number of voters who identify as Democrats. The figure on the left below shows the relationship between party identification the year before an election and votes for the Democratic candidate. As The Washington Post noted, “Party identification more than a year in advance of the election predicts nothing about how the election will ultimately turn out.” The right-hand graph below, also from the Post, plots the popular vote for a presidential election against the incumbent President’s approval rating. The relationship between presidential approval and election results is statistically significant. But we need more data.

Obama Approval Rating

Presidential approval is a useful number to watch. Robert Erikson and Christopher Wlezien argue that presidential approval ratings show what issues are important to Americans. Obama’s net rating is slightly negative, making the Republicans a narrow favorite to win the 2016 election.

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1. Dribbble

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Dribbble_Presentation

2. FiveThirtyEight

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FiveThirtyEight_Presentation

3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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NHTSA_Presentation

Bioinfo-what?! At Plotly, we’re proud of our diverse and talented user base. In this post, we show off the work of our bioinformaticians.

In case you didn’t know:
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.

Source: UCONN

Plotly happens to serve a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field.

In this post, we show off 7 resources in Python and R created by Plotly bioinformatics and biostats researchers by way of a Spectacle Editor presentation. You can make a similar presentation with your Plotly graphs.

Presentation

Bioinformatics_Presentation

1. Jupyter notebook: Visualizing bioinformatics data with plotly and python

2. Zoom & hover in volcano plots

3. Interactive dendrograms in R & Python

4. Toggle lines and distributions with the legend

5. Take it to the 3rd dimension

6. Interactive Manhattan Plots

7. Gene Expression Heatmaps

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In this blog post, we’ll take some holiday-themed data for a spin. Learn about what U.S. states produce the most Christmas trees, trends in holiday spending, when the shopping season started, and more. We made the interactive graphs using Plotly’s web app and APIs. To securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, contact us about Plotly on-premise.

1. What States Harvest the Most Christmas Trees?

Oregon is the top harvesting state, with an output of 37.22% of U.S. Christmas trees. North Carolina is a distant second at 24.76%. Learn to make choropleth maps like this one in Plotly.

2. When Does the Holiday Shopping Season Begin?

While “Black Friday” is traditionally known as the start of the holiday shopping season, some folks get going even earlier than that. In fact, in 2015, 23% of shoppers began before November! The procrastination nation makes up 44% of all shoppers who start after December begins. Learn to make a simple line graph in Plotly.

3. How Much are People Spending?

The estimate of average 2015 Christmas spending is at its highest point, $830, since 2007’s pre-recession amount of $866. 2015 also has the third-highest spending estimate in the last 16 years.

4. Ornaments in 3D

Hey! Look! Its a Christmas ornament in 3D! You can toggle to zoom in and out, or click and drag to flip and spin the plot. For more graphs like this, check out our post on 3D graphs.

5. Holiday Legacy

Our next graph shows the relative birth rates in the US on every day of the year (1 being the most common day, 366 being the least common. Note that we reversed the y axis to emphasize that the lowest rank (1) is the most common day). We linearly shifted the units and converted days to months, so that the x axis shows the number of months after 12/25, rather than the date itself (9/25 is 9 months after 12/25). Each point represents a single day. The data pretty clearly spikes near the end of September, nine months after the holidays :) .

6. Happy New Year!

This graph of tweets related to New Year’s when 2011 rolled to 2012 comes from this blog post. We’re showing total tweets (worldwide) which relate in some way to the New Year. We see spikes in around midnight near midnight in the largest population centers: Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Happy New Year Everyone!

We decided to put together the top 10 most outstanding Plotly charts from 2015 to show you the power of our platform.

These interactive graphs were made using Plotly’s web app and APIs.

To securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, contact us about Plotly On-Premise.

If you’re interested in making charts like these, consider upgrading to a Pro or On-Premise plan for 2016.

10. “Support for Same-Sex Marriage, 2001-2014”

These Tufte sparklines were produced by Pew Research.

Produce them using Python, R and the Plotly web app.

9. “Communities in a Facebook network”

This network graph was produced by a mathematician and professor with the username empet. Learn how to make this network graph in IPython Notebooks with Plotly. You can also make it in R and MATLAB.

8. “US Treasury yield curve”

This surface chart was produced by Plotly co-founder chris.

Learn how to make this 3D surface chart in Python with Plotly. You can also make it in R and with Excel data in the Plotly web app.

7. “Waterparks in the US”

This chloropleth map was produced by a blogger named rozran00.

Learn how to make this chloropleth map in Python with Plotly. You can also do it in R and with Excel data in the Plotly web app.

6. “Dendrogram heatmap”

This dendrogram heatmap was produced by a Masters student in Biology named oxana.

Learn how to make this dendrogram heatmap in Python with Plotly. You can also do it in ggplot2.

5. “Master Painter Color Choices Throughout History”

This bubble chart was produced by brandnewpeterson.

Learn how to make this bubble chart in Python with Plotly. You can also do it in R, Matlab, and with Excel data in the Plotly web app.

4. “Periodic Table of Elements”

This annotated heatmap was produced by Plotly software engineer chelsea_lyn.

Learn how to make this annotated heatmap in Python with Plotly. You can also make it in R, Matlab and with Excel data in the Plotly web app.

3. “Co-authorship Network of Scientists”

This network graph was produced by empet.

Learn how to make this network graph in IPython Notebooks with Plotly. You can also make it in R and Matlab.

2. “The Breather Surface”

This 3D surface plot was produced by data scientist tarzzz.

Learn how to make this 3D surface plot in Python with Plotly. You can also make it in R, Matlab, and with Excel data in the web app.

1. “Flow of Visitors Between Cities”

This chord diagram was produced in Python by empet.

Learn how to make this chord diagram in Python with Plotly. Here is the code to visualize it in R and Matlab.

Find out how Plotly can change your charts with our free tutorials.

With graphs like these, take advantage of unlimited API calls, unlimited private charts and custom themes by upgrading to our Professional or On-Premise plan today.

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election is now under a year away. This post digs deeper into the data surrounding a very important topic - campaign financing.

These interactive graphs were made using Plotly’s web app and APIs. To securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, sign up for a Plotly Professional plan or contact us about Plotly On-Premise.

1. Where Does the Money Come From?

Short answer: It comes from many different places.

Long answer: Most of it comes from securities and investment firms, lawyers and law firms, and real estate. The graph below provides an example of the funds contributed to Senators Schumer and Durbin.

industry-contributions-to-minority-leader-candidates

Learn to make grouped bar charts like this one in the Plotly web app or with one of our APIs for Python and R.

2. Campaign Finance Enforcement

In Oregon and Washington, office candidates must file to twenty-five separate parties whenever they receive a campaign contribution. Whereas New Jersey, North Dakota and Illinois are more lax with this policy, requiring just two filings.

campaign-finance-enforcement-number-of-filings-required

Click here to find out how to make choropleth maps like this one in Plotly or with our APIs for Python and R.

3. Campaign Contributions by the Tax Preparation Industry

Could money in politics be to blame for complicated tax returns?

In 2011, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) introduced a bill that would have streamlined tax returns for most individuals. The so-called “return-free” filing bill never even came up for a vote in the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) included the proposal in their failed 2011 tax reform bill. Rep. Cooper’s office said congressional inaction was due, in part, to opposition from tax preparation companies like Intuit and H&R Block.

campaign-contributions-made-by-the-tax-preparation-industry

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4. Total Contribution Receipts for Presidential Candidates

The winner of a presidential election, has on average, received 52.7% more in campaign contributions than the loser.

Learn to make bar charts like this one with Excel data, in Plotly’s web app, Python or R.

5. 2016 Presidential Candidates: The Money Race, Democrats

So how do the top 2016 Democratic Presidential candidates stack up against one another? While Bernie Sanders lags Hillary Clinton significantly in terms of campaign contributions (i.e. total receipts), he remains competitive in terms of overall support.

2016-democratic-candidates-total-receipts-vs-support

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6. 2016 Presidential Candidates: The Money Race, Republicans

So how do the top 2016 Republican Presidential candidates stack up againist one another? Though Donald Trump has received less in campaign contributions (total receipts) than other candidates, he leads the pack in terms of support.

2016-republican-candidates-total-receipts-vs-support

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Plotly’s student ambassador of the month is Teddy Ward, an Earth and Ocean Sciences and Computer Science student at Duke University. Teddy has successfully recruited 10 Duke students to Plotly and is aiming to introduce to site to 100+ more! He was gracious enough to answer a few questions about how he uses Plotly and applies it to his work flow. Plotly recently sent him an awesome company t-shirt to rep in North Carolina.

Do you use Plotly on a regular basis and recruit folks from your university? Let us know. You might be Ploty’s next student ambassador of the month!

1. What role does data currently play in your life?

Data plays a huge role in everything I do, from what articles I get to read on Facebook to who plays for the sports teams I watch. I read FiveThirtyEight obsessively, and Nate Silver and company do a spectacular job of showing the simple statistics in everything, from presidential primaries to crossword puzzles. They use data to explain the world, and so do I. I study Earth and Ocean Sciences and Computer Science at Duke, and every day I learn more about how the environment and our planet responds to micro events, like today’s beautiful high-of-77-in-early-March days, or macro events like global warming.

2. When did you realize that you wanted to explore a career in data science?

I am not going to be a data scientist right out of college, but that doesn’t mean that data science won’t be a big part of my career. Every job that I have will require me managing data in some way, whether for business analytics, programming productivity, or even the variety of music that I listen to while I work. Wherever I have data, I can use Plotly to make it beautiful.

3. What do you see as the most interesting application for you with Plotly (now or in the future)?

The beauty of Plotly for me is that it’s incredible for everyone. Everyone has to make a graph at some point, and they can use Plotly to do so. I use Plotly because I think that it is the best data visualization library for Python and Javascript there is, but the cloud editing tools give the ability for anyone of any level of experience to visualize data they come into contact with. So I think Plotly would be a great tool for education: teaching people to read data, teaching people to present data, or even teaching people to program.

More specifically, however, I would love to see Plotly applied to Earth Science problems everywhere. No one can ever learn too much about the planet we live on. So with that in mind, I recently made a bunch of graphs, which will be included in an academic paper to be submitted soon, showing the total estimated cost to society from global forest fire emissions by region (e.g. Boreal North America) and by type of chemical emitted (e.g. CO2).

– Edward Tufte (1983)

Data visualization expert Edward Tufte’s Five Laws of Data-Ink:

1. Above all else show the data.

2. Maximize the data-ink ratio

3. Erase non-data-ink.

4. Erase redundant data-ink.

5. Revise and edit.

Plotly has drawn much inspiration from Tufte’s techniques. We apply them in this post.

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Motivated by Lukasz Piwek’s “Tufte in R,” we decided to do a little Tufte-transcribing. The graphs below are meant to add some interactivity to Piwek’s original post which “replicates excellent visualization practices developed by Edward Tufte.”

These interactive graphs were made using Plotly’s web app. To securely share graphs and data within a team and make interactive dashboards, sign up for a Plotly Professional plan or contact us about Plotly On-Premise.

1. Minimal Line Plot

The goal of this type of graph, according to Tufte, is to keep the non-data ink to a minimum – “the data-ink ratio should be equal to 1 minus the proportion of graphic that can be erased without loss of data-information.”

2. Range-Frame Plot

Instead of conventional axes, Tufte uses so-called “range frames.” Range frame plots have axis lines drawn only over the range of the data points.

3. Dot-Dash Plot

Dot-dash plots are scatter plots with tick marks representing the marginal distribution of the data.

4. Minimal Boxplot

This boxplot uses as little non-data ink as possible – existing ink is used to represent as much new information as possible. This is easy to accomplish in Plotly, where, instead of using graph-clogging annotations, a simple hover reveals the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum values.

5. Minimal Barchart

This Tufte-inspired barchart illustrates the theme that much can be erased without compromising the data – including grid and axes lines.

6. Sparklines

According to Tufte:

“A sparkline is a small, intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution. Sparklines mean that graphics are no longer cartoonish special occasions with captions and boxes, but rather sparkline graphics can be everywhere a word or number can be: embedded in a sentence, table, headline, map, spreadsheet, graphic.”

Plotly’s modern take on the sparkline promotes utility through interactivity.

7. March on Moscow

Charles Minard’s 1869 graph of Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow shows the dwindling size of the army. Tufte says that it is probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn.

The broad line on top represents the army’s size on the march from Poland to Moscow. The thin dark line below represents the army’s size on the retreat. The width of the lines represents the army size, which started over 400,000 strong and dwindled to 10,000. The bottom lines are temperature and time scales, and the overall plot shows distance travelled.

Below is our modern version. Moscow is represented by the switch in the middle. The blue line shows temperature along the y-axis on the right. The bottom x-axes show dates and distance. We can also use a custom date format. Hover your mouse reveal data. This interactivity is brought to you by D3.js, the graphing library Plotly uses. Click and drag to zoom.

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Benedict Evan’s “Mobile Ate the World” shows how the mobile footprint has grown exponentially in the past decade or two. We thought some of his graphs were really cool and decided to take them to the next level by making them interactive in Plotly.

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1. PC’s: 3 Decades, 3000% Increase in Sales

After sales peaked in 2011, a steady decline has been observed. The next graph illustrates why.

2. The Gamechangers: Android and iOS

Tablet and smartphone sales are increasing exponentially.

3. Ecommerce Flying High

Online revenue in 2014 is eighteen times that of 1999.

4. Smartphones Now Most Popular Way to Browse

Smartphones and tablets stealing the web-surfing spotlight.

5. A Battle of the Heavy Weights: iOS vs Android

This match is still only in the first round. Both operating systems offer innovative approaches and solutions.

6. Mobile Data Not Just for On-The-Go

66% of folks utilize their smartphone’s data (internet) both at home and on the go.

7. Data is Still Wildly Expensive

The price for 500mb of data was just a shade under 5% of the average gross national income in 2014.

8. Facebook on the Run

52% of monthly active Facebook users are mobile-exclusive as of late 2015.

9. Appsolute Domination

When using the internet, 54% of folks are doing so through an app.

10. 1/3rd of Ecommerce is Mobile

Mobile is revolutionizing the way we shop. A third of online sales are now performed on-the-go, suggests 2015 Black Friday analytics.

Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has a 15-year endowment of U.S. $44.3 billion is a self-proclaimed frugal clothes and jewelry buyer. The U.S. $28 billion that Gates himself has donated to the largest private foundation in the world could have bought him 26 million pair of Versace’s most expensive jeans, but he’d rather focus on seeing human society accomplish the 3 following things in the next 20 years:

1. “First is an energy innovation to lower the cost and get rid of green house gases. This isn’t guaranteed so we need a lot of public and private risk taking.”

2. “Second is progress on disease particularly infectious disease. Polio, Malaria, HIV, TB, etc.. are all diseases we should be able to either eliminate of bring down close to zero. There is amazing science that makes us optimistic this will happen.”

3. “Third are tools to help make education better - to help teachers learn how to teach better and to help students learn and understand why they should learn and reinforce their confidence.”

This post will provide a deeper insight on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, taking the foundation’s 2014 transparent contribution graphs and making them interactive in Plotly.

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1. What Exactly are the Gates’ Funding?

Total funding in 2014 approached $4 billion, making the Gates’ Foundation the second most generous philanthropists in America to Warren Buffet.

2. A Global Reach

$442,290,000 was put toward developing agriculture, a sector that could be threatened by global warming.

3. Going to Battle Against HIV, Malaria

The Foundation donated U.S. $1.1 billion to health-related issues in 2014. 38% of that amount (or $423,320,000) was aimed at HIV and malaria

4. Contributing in the Fight Against Tobacco

$30,000,000 was contributed toward tobacco control and for good reason – “overall mortality among both male and female smokes in the United States is about 3x higher than that among similar people who never smoked.”

5. Improving the U.S. Education System

The Gates’ contributed a generous $405,270,000 to the hotly debated U.S. education system.

FiveThirtyEight contributor Randy Olson and senior editor Ritchie King teamed up to “parse every Reddit comment from late 2007 through August 2015.” The result was a data visulation tool that tracked the rise and fall of word, abbreviation, and internet slang popularity. Reddit’s users have posted “more than 1.7 billion comments” since launch, so the site represented a language data mine of sorts that was begging to be tapped.

We thought the tool was really cool and that it could be made even more effective by allowing the data to be interactive on the hover. Olson and King made this task quite easy as a “download the data” button conveniently rests on the right of the interface. From there, uploading the data to Plotly is simple.

Below, you’ll find some of our favorite examples. If you’ve got an interesting find, tweet it @plotlygraphs.

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1. Expressing Humor

The way you express humor over the web tells a lot about you. In the world of Reddit, for every 450 “haha’s” you’ll get one “hehe.” Translation: hehe-ers are a rare breed.

2. Social Media Wars

Facebook beware: After a slow, steady uphill battle, Twitter is ready to take the lead. Meanwhile, Myspace is trying to maintain the bare minimum of relevancy.

3. That Sh*t Cray

A popular Jay-Z and Kanye West jam using this word was released on September 13th, 2011. Later that year, the word’s usage skyrocketed. OxfordDictionaries.com added the word in 2014.

4. Hey Bae!

Use of the the word “babe,” slang for a woman or girl, will soon be surpassed by a shortened version “bae” if trends continue. Unlike the example in graph 3, nobody really knows where bae originated.

5. Graph, Chart… or Plot?

Many a discussion at Plotly revolved around the simple question of, “What do people call a diagram showing the relation between variable quantities, typically of two variables, each measured along one of a pair of axes at right angles?” Reddit’s usage data shows that the word plot is used about 2.5 times more frequently than chart and 5 times more frequently than graph.

6. Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

But correlation and causation are very strongly correlated!

7. Let Me Take a Selfie

According to Guardian News, the word “selfie” was “first used online by a young drunk in 2002 to describe a self-portrait photograph.” The word’s use exploded in 2013 when the Oxford English Dictionary chose the word as its Word of the Year. In 2014, selfie received the most nominations of any word added to Lake Superior State University’s List of Banished Words.

8. The Tinder Generation

Internet dating: Don’t be bashful, just about everyone is doing it these days. Tinder was released in late 2012 and observed explosive growth, especially amongst 18-30 year olds, from 2014 onward.

9. Twerk Because YOLO

Perhaps more interesting than the rapid rise to fame for these words is their origin. Notice the random spike for YOLO in mid 2008 on the graph below; similarly, twerk has some action in early 2011.

10. Less Smoking… More Vaping

The percentage of smoking adults in the U.S. has steadily decreased in recent years. A notable reduction from 17.8% in 2013 to 16.8% occurred in 2014. Perhaps this also explains the reduction in the number of times the word is uttered on Reddit. Similar word-use trends were observed in Marijuana and weed. Folks are opting to vape more, a reportedly less dangerous form of nicotine consumption.

If you have used Plotly even just a handful of times, chances are that you have encountered the load screen that offers the age-old advice “correlation does not imply causation.”

Correlation doesn’t imply causation

Click the link on that load screen, and you will land on this site. There, a simple comic reaches into the correlation and causation cookie jar.

Correlation and causation comic

An increase in sales can’t directly be attributed to a new marketing startegy, just like cheese consumption can’t directly be attributed to death by tangled bedsheets (despite the graph below!). A “correlation means causation” argument needs to pass further testing, analysis, and study.

Harvard Law’s Tyler Vigen authored Spurious Correlations, a “ridiculous book of charts” involving bizarre correlations. For fun, we plotted some of the goofiest ones we could find. If you’ve got an interesting find, tweet it @plotlygraphs.

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1. Californian Sunlight and Visitors to SeaWorld

Sunlight in California conveniently dipped in 2010, aligning itself nearly perfectly with a reduction in visitors to SeaWorld. The Californian sunlight minimum was related to a drop in the Pacific Decadel Oscillation.

2. Sour Cream Consumption and Motorcycle Deaths

A correlation means causation argument might be more believable if the title was “attempting to consume sour cream while riding a motorcycle.”

3. Death by Tangled Bedsheets and Cheese Consumption

Of most concern: Why has death by tangled bedsheets increased by over 200% between 2000 and 2009?

4. Age of Miss America and Murders by Hot Objects

The relationship between these two from 1999 to 2006 has the wow factor.

5. Honey Produced by Bees and Drowning

A decrease in honey production in the U.S. is better correlated with how harsh the winter is – not death drowning after falling out of a boat.

6. Money Spent on Pets and Death by Stairs

These two things have independently increased at alarming rates.

7. Juvenile Arrests for Marijuana and U.S. Crude Oil Imports

Preferably, both of these are much lower come 2020 – let the spurious correlation continue!

8. NYC Precipitation and Chicken Consumption

When its dry in NYC, folks are outside enjoying the sunshine, not indoors eating chicken!

9. Superbowl Points and Death by Venemous Spiders

Despite a loss, the Panthers scored 29 points in this thrilling back-and-forth affair. Even spiders got excited.

10. Saudi Oil and Banana Cost

Not even a banana oil salesman could convince someone of a real correlation here.

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Google Trends, Google’s search analysis tool launched in 2006, allows the user to compare the volume of searches between two or more terms. Given the confluence of big news-making events around the globe, including “Brexit,” “PokemonGO,” and of course “Donald Trump,” we thought it would be slick to illustrate their significance in Plotly.

We investigated a few other words (“Beer”), phrases (“Moving to Canada”), correlations (Beer & Temperature), and more to diversify the post. Hope you have as much fun reading as we did plotting!

Pokemon, Trump & Clinton

If you’ve got an interesting find, graph it in Plotly, and tweet it @plotlygraphs.

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1. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Pokemon

Pokemon has once again taken the world by storm. As of the early July release of PokemonGO, it quickly became more relevant than it had been at any point in the last 12.5 years– and more relevant than both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the most visible 2016 U.S. Presidential candidates.

I Choose You, Pikachu

Once you’ve caught that Pokemon buzzing around in your room, consider this: As of early July 2016, “Pokemon” is now 5 times more relevant –worldwide– than it has been in more than a decade.

Trumping Trump? A Difficult Task…

…at least in terms of Google search volume! As of early July, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck and neck in relevancy in the United States. The long term trend, however, suggests Hillary is gaining steam while Trump is slowly fading.

2. Pizza

For a quick slice of fun amidst some heavier topics, we look to pizza. Pizza’s relevance is ever-increasing across the States and is searched about four times as frequently on Google in 2016 than it was in 2004.

Michigan

Which state is craziest over pizza, you ask? New York naturally comes to mind, but the data suggests that Michigan is actually the epicenter of pizza relevance. On the other hand, folks are searching for pizza the least in Oregon.

3. Gun Control

With each violent attack involving a gun, the phrase “gun control” sees a spike in relevance. Relevance spikes have increased in frequency after 2010 with the Sandy Hook shooting yielding the most dramatic peak.

Wyoming

Wyomingites are searching for the phrase “gun control” most frequently. Perhaps it has to do with the popularity of hunting within the state. On the flip side, Hawaiians are searching for gun control the least on Google.

4. Move to Canada

Let’s face it, a vast majority of Americans have searched those precise words in Google at some point in the last decade – typically following another sad moment in U.S. history. Turns out Brits are doing it too.

Brexit

The biggest spike in Britain’s “Move to Canada” interest just occurred recently, following Brexit. Speaking of which, states in the Northeast (New York and Massachusetts, specifically ) are most curious about the UK’s EU departure. Mississippi, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to care as much.

Remain or Leave

Google Trends analysis reveals that in the weeks leading up to Brexit, more folks were searching for “leave” than “remain.”

5. Football, Beer, and Temperatures

America’s favorite weekend pastime will be back before you know it. Heck, training camp starts during the last few days of July. Turns out Alabama is most bonkers for it to begin again.

Pennsylvania

Since 2004, beer is more relevant – as a function of Google searches – in Pennsylvania than any other state.

Beer Science

For every 50 searches for beer in 2004, there are about 90 searches at present day – so search frequency has nearly doubled in a decade. Beer’s relevance tracks closely with the annual mean temperature trace in the Northern Hemisphere, peaking during summer and hitting a relative minimum during winter.

6. New School Year, New Me

The annual search trajectory of “graph” and “plot” follows the peaks and valleys of the school year in the United States. Following a summertime lull, searches for these two words come back in full force during September and October as students enter the new school year with a fresh outlook.

Searches tail off quickly in November – often as motivation fades – and reach a relative minimum in December (holidays!). There is a jump in search frequency again during spring, but never as high as the previous fall. This is also the time of year that many students come down with senioritis.

1. Download Spectacle Editor

2. Start Designing Your Presentation

3. Adding a Plotly Graph…

4. Adding an Image

5. Customize Your Masterpiece

6. Choose How You’d like to Present

7. Upload to Plotly

1. 3.4 Billion Folks are Online, Nearly Half the World’s Population

2. The Competition is Also Huge …

3. Google is Infinitely Important

4. Your Google Result is also Infinitely Important

5. Choose an Intuitive Blogging Platform

6. Some Domain Names are Insanely Expensive … Yours Doesn’t Have to Be

7. Not All About Text

8. Growth in Online Video Usage

9. Content Posted vs Shared by Weekday

10. Can You Make a Living?

1. The Average Surface Temperature of Mars is 85ºC Less than Earth

2. Mars Has 1/10 the Mass of Earth

3. Mars’ Daylength Almost Identical to Earth

4. Earth Has More than Double Mars’ Gravitational Force

5. Mars’ Orbital Velocity Less Than Earth’s

6. Mars Has a Lower Density than Earth

7. Planet Habitability Index

8. What Would it Cost?

9. Who is Most Interested?

1. CO2 Emissions

2. Renewable Energy

3. A Bright Future?

1. Making a Dashboard with Plotly is Super Easy

2. Turn Scroll-Fest into No-Mess

3. Cleverly Customizable

4. Content that is Perfect for Presentations

5. Presentations that Define Utility

6. Gamechanging for Social Media

1. Dribbble

2. FiveThirtyEight

3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Electoral College Map

Electoral College By State

Democratic Primary Voter Leanings

Republican Primary Voter Leanings

Favorability & Familiarity

Presidential Favorability Ratings

Obama Approval Rating

1. Dribbble

2. FiveThirtyEight

3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

1. Jupyter notebook: Visualizing bioinformatics data with plotly and python

2. Zoom & hover in volcano plots

3. Interactive dendrograms in R & Python

4. Toggle lines and distributions with the legend

5. Take it to the 3rd dimension

6. Interactive Manhattan Plots

7. Gene Expression Heatmaps

1. What States Harvest the Most Christmas Trees?

2. When Does the Holiday Shopping Season Begin?

3. How Much are People Spending?

4. Ornaments in 3D

5. Holiday Legacy

6. Happy New Year!

10. “Support for Same-Sex Marriage, 2001-2014”

9. “Communities in a Facebook network”

8. “US Treasury yield curve”

7. “Waterparks in the US”

6. “Dendrogram heatmap”

5. “Master Painter Color Choices Throughout History”

4. “Periodic Table of Elements”

3. “Co-authorship Network of Scientists”

2. “The Breather Surface”

1. “Flow of Visitors Between Cities”

1. Where Does the Money Come From?

2. Campaign Finance Enforcement

3. Campaign Contributions by the Tax Preparation Industry

4. Total Contribution Receipts for Presidential Candidates

5. 2016 Presidential Candidates: The Money Race, Democrats

6. 2016 Presidential Candidates: The Money Race, Republicans

1. What role does data currently play in your life?

2. When did you realize that you wanted to explore a career in data science?

3. What do you see as the most interesting application for you with Plotly (now or in the future)?

1. CO₂ Emissions