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Plotly: The Web's first scientific graphing app

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29 pointsjparmer15 comments

Make scientific-quality graphs and run statistics and regressions - All in your browser.

Oh, also, nice examples: https://plot.ly/#gallery. And R, Python, Matlab, Julia, and PERL libraries: https://plot.ly/api...Nice!

Well done guys. For good insights on how you could approach some UX challenges in a tool like Plotly, I highly recommend watching Bret Victor's "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations".

For the non-Plotly folks reading this, Bret's presentation is also very effective at blowing your mind in general.

http://vimeo.com/66085662

Thanks! We are indeed huge fans of @worrydream

And check out the python script that generated the graph (https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/157) to pick and choose favorite layout elements, for example.

I saw a demo in person the other day and they showed it as a graph embedded in a Washington Post article. I was most impressed by the ability to click through on the graph and browse or query the data set directly.

Here's one of the recent Washington Post articles with an embedded Plotly graph: http://wapo.st/13osx4W

Here's the most recent embedded Plotly graph in the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/19zFL1B

What changed since your last post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831) ?

Lots! We long since incorporated all of the suggestions from that post, including building a cross-language graphing API for Python, Julia, MATLAB, R, et al. We've also had time since then to raise a seed round, smooth out the UX and aesthetic, build more features like ability to comment on graphs, and build the team past the original 2.5 engineers from the time of that post (https://plot.ly/about). There are also many, many more graph types: box plots, histograms, error bars, area plots, and multiple axes and subplots coming very soon. Thanks for following and asking! Most of the HN readership likely graphs data regularly, so its been especially rewarding and fascinating to solicit feedback from y'all.

Thoughts? NYT-quality graph made in Plotly: https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/

Plotly is awesome...I show it to everyone I can, and use it to present awesome graphs at lab meetings almost every week.

Any scientists or engineers out there have any thoughts or suggestions? Would you use this at your job or in your lab?

Really, really beautiful. Well done.

Another successful app made with D3.js!

Really fantastically fantastic.

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