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Make Your Next Presentation Pop
Source: CampaignImagine: 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,...
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A 2016 Blog Clog... Worth Posting Your Dialogue?
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...
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10 Charts on Mars That You Should See
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 👽....
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3 Dashboards on Clean Energy
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...
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Turn Scroll-Fest into No-Mess with Dashboards & Presentations
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 –...
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The Meat & Potatoes of Dashboard Viz
“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...
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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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3 Minimalist Dashboards with Great Style
“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...
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Bioinformaticians in Plotly
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...
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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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Plotly’s 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 show you the power of our platform. These interactive graphs were made using Plotly’s web app...
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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...
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 U.S. $44.3 billion is a self-proclaimed frugal clothes and jewelry buyer. The U.S. $28 billion 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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