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I want to use plotly so badly but I don't want to sink an investment into another sticky commercial ecosystem -- I've had to do that with Mathematica and Matlab
by jjoonathan 8y ago
I want to use plotly so badly but I don't want to sink an investment into another sticky commercial ecosystem -- I've had to do that with Mathematica and Matlab, I don't want to do it again. How good/bad is plotly in comparison?
Obviously python itself is open, I mean the API :-)
- jmmease 8y agoActually, you don't need to sink any investment into a commercial ecosystem here! plotly.py and the plotly.js rendering library are both MIT licensed, developed in the open on GitHub, and totally self-contained. Everything in the technology stack used in the announcement post is free, open source, self-contained, usable offline, and doesn't require an account. The plot.ly cloud integration is totally optional.
- jjoonathan 8y agoCool! I'll have to give it a look then!
- Ayey_ 8y agoIt's completely open and that's amazing. The ability to design plot.ly plots offline in a jupyter notebook and easily deploy it to our reporting website (Using Dash) is so quick and easy. Even the default interactive elements is plenty for most use cases.