Streamtubes in Plotly with Python
🌟 Before we introduce this seriously cool visualization, we’d like to announce that plotly.py has surpassed 5 million downloads! Thank you for helping us reach this milestone! 🙌 Once Upon a Time 🕰 It...
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View ArticleI Spy with my Graphing Eye 📊 👁️
“No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson Image Source Nowadays, plots, graphs, stats, and facts are everywhere -...
View ArticleHow to Create Interactive Climate Model Maps in Python
“El Niño is likely this winter,” the forecaster said. “El Niño typically brings above normal winter cloudiness and rainfall across the southern U.S. and milder conditions to Canada…” You may have heard...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleTurn 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 –...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleBioinformaticians 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...
View ArticleTeach 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...
View ArticleTaking 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:...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleCreating 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....
View Article🤖 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...
View ArticleAssessing 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...
View ArticleMaximizing 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...
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleCone 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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