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As someone who routinely uses python, R, and matlab for data analysis, I am going to have to give this a try. Matplotlib can be cumbersome and I am always looki

As someone who routinely uses python, R, and matlab for data analysis, I am going to have to give this a try. Matplotlib can be cumbersome and I am always looking for alternatives. This looks great! Can't wait to try it.

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bernardom 13y ago
Yeah, this looks pretty cool. I currently use RStudio server to do analysis from the RStudio IDE in my browser- while all the client-sensitive data and computation happens in a remote box. Allows me to play with graphs on my browser as well,. It looks like Plotly's advantage is in sharing the plots easily.
- cparmer 13y ago
  That's cool. Does your company set up this server version or is this something that you manage yourself? I've been using RStudio in my desktop, what do you like about using it in your browser?
  - bernardom 13y ago
    My company set it up this way, at my request. I enjoy RStudio over using R over ssh (in a CLI). The advantage of using it in a browser: it's not on my local machine! So if I run some godawful super-intensive script, my machine doesn't slow to a crawl. Also, I work with client sensitive data and we try not to hold any on our local laptops. It's really a nice solution. Now if only they supported multiple monitors...
tmarthal 13y ago
python has a ton of in browser plotting mechanisms (including matplotlib inside iPython notebook files), and you can always use vincent which is a wrapper around vega to create d3 plots (svg html elements, which can be styled with CSS). Here is the repo/tutorial for plotting with vincent https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent [Note that vincent works great if you are using pandas for your data analysis.]
cparmer 13y ago
Glad to hear! IMO, it's nice to have graphs/results from these 3 environments all in the same place in the cloud. Feel free to get in touch if you have any feedback! chris[at]plot.ly

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bernardom 13y ago

Yeah, this looks pretty cool. I currently use RStudio server to do analysis from the RStudio IDE in my browser- while all the client-sensitive data and computation happens in a remote box. Allows me to play with graphs on my browser as well,. It looks like Plotly's advantage is in sharing the plots easily.

cparmer 13y ago
That's cool. Does your company set up this server version or is this something that you manage yourself? I've been using RStudio in my desktop, what do you like about using it in your browser?
- bernardom 13y ago
  My company set it up this way, at my request. I enjoy RStudio over using R over ssh (in a CLI). The advantage of using it in a browser: it's not on my local machine! So if I run some godawful super-intensive script, my machine doesn't slow to a crawl. Also, I work with client sensitive data and we try not to hold any on our local laptops. It's really a nice solution. Now if only they supported multiple monitors...

tmarthal 13y ago

python has a ton of in browser plotting mechanisms (including matplotlib inside iPython notebook files), and you can always use vincent which is a wrapper around vega to create d3 plots (svg html elements, which can be styled with CSS). Here is the repo/tutorial for plotting with vincent https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent [Note that vincent works great if you are using pandas for your data analysis.]

cparmer 13y ago

Glad to hear! IMO, it's nice to have graphs/results from these 3 environments all in the same place in the cloud. Feel free to get in touch if you have any feedback! chris[at]plot.ly