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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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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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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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Teach Yourself Code-Free Chart Animations with Secret Messages
Plotly’s latest invention? Something akin to “invisible ink.” That’s right – Plotly users can harness our new animation functionality to create charts, code-free (!), with secret messages. One of the...
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Taking the World’s Pulse on Climate Change
As a meteorologist who doubles as a blogger and content creator for Plotly, I’m naturally drawn to data that deals with the atmosphere, both in the space of weather and climate. A brief introduction:...
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Data Bites: 7 TV Shows that Jumped the Shark
There is a fine line between keeping your viewers interested, intrigued, and emotionally invested and crossing the line with a stunt whose main purpose is to spark their waning interest. If a...
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Creating Crisp Graphs for Mobile
According to comScore’s 2017 U.S. Cross-Platform Future in Focus, as of December 2016, 69% of digital media is consumed via a smartphone or tablet, with the remaining 31% going to desktop computers....
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🤖 might just be your next co-worker
1.8 million robots were in operation globally during 2015 according the the International Federation of Robotics, a number that is forecast to balloon to 2.6 million in the year 2019. While these...
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Assessing Global Health, One 📈 at a Time
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website is a treasure trove of data. On a semi-regular basis, the institute publishes data visualizations using the daily freely available on the...
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Maximizing the Data-Ink Ratio in Dashboards and Slide Deck
“Above all else, show the data.“ -Edward Tufte, 1983 Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Leonardo da Vinci of data,” the work of data visualization expert Edward Tufte has long been an...
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Where science meets art
Data visualizations such graphs, charts, presentations, and reports represent the intersection point of your company’s data, statistics, and numbers (i.e. science) and its brand, style, and...
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How to Create 2D and 3D Interactive Weather Maps in Python and R
Robert FitzRoy. Source: nzhistory.govt.nz. It was the year 1860. Robert FitzRoy, of England and New Zealand, was using the new telegraph system to gather daily weather observations and produce the...
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What is a FIPS code? County-level charts in Python
FIPS codes are five-digit codes that are assigned to each U.S. county.The first two digits identify the state and the last three identify the county. Think of it like a fancy version of a ZIP Code or...
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What is a SPLOM chart? Making scatterplot matrices in Python
The scatterplot matrix, known acronymically as SPLOM, is a relatively uncommon graphical tool that uses multiple scatterplots to determine the correlation (if any) between a series of variables. These...
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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,...
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