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Three Things That You Can Do To Explain Your Data
To demonstrate three of our favorite ways to visualize data, we’ll use Nobel Prize data and earthquake data from our mapmaking friends at CartoDB. You can see how we made these in an IPython Notebook....
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Four Mistakes To Avoid If You’re Analyzing Data
Analyzing and graphing data helps us understand our work in science, business, and everyday life. We’ve written this post with a few principles we think about as a startup. We used Plotly’s free web...
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Summer is quickly approaching (even here in Montréal!), and the...
Summer is quickly approaching (even here in Montréal!), and the 2015-2016 school year is on the horizon. We’re collecting feedback to help make Plotly into a better tool for teachers and students....
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Seven Ways You Can Use A Linear, Polynomial, Gaussian, & Exponential Line Of...
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...
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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...
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How Teachers Are Engaging Students With Data & Graphs
Dr. James Baglin is a lecturer of Statistisics in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He recently hosted a plot-off in his biostats course at...
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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...
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Twelve Graphs & Dashboards You Should See On Climate Change, Science, &...
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:...
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How To Analyze Data: Eight Useful Ways You Can Make Graphs
Visualizing data makes it easier to understand, analyze, and communicate. How can you decide which of the many available chart types is best suited for your data? Use this guide to get familiar with...
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How To Analyze Data: 21 Graphs that Explain the Same-Sex Marriage Case,...
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...
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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...
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How To Analyze Data: Seven Beautiful Ways You Can Explain Money, Fashion,...
In a recent study, researchers gave participants information about a made-up drug. Some of the participants also saw a chart. The chart repeated information the participants had read. But showing it as...
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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...
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3D Graphing & Maps For Excel, R, Python, & MATLAB: Gender & Jobs, a 3D...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Analyzing Data: Eighteen Graphs About The Death Penalty You Should See
This post details how, where, and when the death penalty has been applied in the United States. We’ll examine opposition to the death penalty (9 graphs), the deterrence argument (5 graphs), and trends...
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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...
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Analyze Data: Hillary, Trump, & The 2016 Presidential Elections
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...
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Analyze Data: 6 Ways to Combine Graphics with Text
Effectively using words, text, and graphs makes your presentation more efficient, communicative, and clear. These six approaches show how with useful examples. We made the interactive graphs using...
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