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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...
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Discover Data: 6 Graphs About Christmas and New Year’s
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....
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The Top Ten Graphs, Charts and Visualizations of 2015
Happy New Year Everyone! We decided to put together the top 10 most outstanding Plotly charts from 2015 to give you an idea of what you can do with our tool.Here’s a list of #10 through #6. Next week,...
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Discover Data: 6 Great Graphs on Campaign Financing
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...
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Gravitational wave plots on Plotly:...
Gravitational wave plots on Plotly: https://plot.ly/feed/?q=gravitational%20waves #stem #gravitywaves #gravitationswellen
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One of our favorite 3D surface...
One of our favorite 3D surface plotshttps://plot.ly/~jonah.bernhard/4
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Global predicted snow depth for Feb 23 2016. Search the Plotly...
Global predicted snow depth for Feb 23 2016. Search the Plotly feed for “snow” https://plot.ly/~ToniBois/3260/
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Full house for tonight’s @reactjs meetup & workshop at...
Full house for tonight’s @reactjs meetup & workshop at Plotly headquarters #react
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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:...
View ArticleIts easy to add background images to charts. Just embed the chart in an...
Its easy to add background images to charts. Just embed the chart in an iframe and place the background image behind it, then turn down the iframe opacity. Play around with this idea here:...
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Plotly Student Ambassador of the Month: Teddy Ward, Duke University
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...
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Above All Else Show the Data
– 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....
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Mobile Ate the World
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...
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The Man Who Has Endowed $44.3 Billion is a Frugal Clothes Buyer
Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has a 15-year endowment of $44,300,000,000, is a self-proclaimed frugal clothes and jewelry buyer. The U.S. $28,000,000,000 that...
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How the Internet Talks
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...
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Spurious Correlations
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...
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Google Trends: Pokemon More Relevant than Trump, Clinton
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...
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The Data Behind Happiness
Folks are doing internet searches for the word “happy” more than ever before. And no, the Pharrell Williams song released late in 2013 isn’t single handedly driving the interest. The upward trend...
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