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Plotly: The Web's first scientific graphing app

29 points by jparmer 13y ago

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

jparmer 13y ago
Thoughts? NYT-quality graph made in Plotly: https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/ https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/
biovisualize 13y ago
Another successful app made with D3.js!
MSunds 13y ago
Oh, also, nice examples: https://plot.ly/#gallery https://plot.ly/#gallery. And R, Python, Matlab, Julia, and PERL libraries: https://plot.ly/api...Nice https://plot.ly/api...Nice!
maslam 13y ago
Really, really beautiful. Well done.
marvvelous 13y ago
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.
- jparmer 13y ago
  Here's one of the recent Washington Post articles with an embedded Plotly graph: http://wapo.st/13osx4W http://wapo.st/13osx4W
  - jparmer 13y ago
    Here's the most recent embedded Plotly graph in the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/19zFL1B http://wapo.st/19zFL1B
bchartoff 13y ago
And check out the python script that generated the graph (https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/157 https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/157) to pick and choose favorite layout elements, for example.
jparmer 13y ago
Any scientists or engineers out there have any thoughts or suggestions? Would you use this at your job or in your lab?
possiblemat 13y ago
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 http://vimeo.com/66085662
- jparmer 13y ago
  Thanks! We are indeed huge fans of @worrydream
sheetjs 13y ago
What changed since your last post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831) ?
- jparmer 13y ago
  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 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.
dgupta599 13y ago
Plotly is awesome...I show it to everyone I can, and use it to present awesome graphs at lab meetings almost every week.
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12345 13y ago
http://mehdibenlafkih.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/graph-sexual-harassment.gif http://mehdibenlafkih.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/graph-sexu... can you guys make pie graph?
happysapper 13y ago
Really fantastically fantastic.

29 points by jparmer 13y ago

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

jparmer 13y ago

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

biovisualize 13y ago

Another successful app made with D3.js!

MSunds 13y ago

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

maslam 13y ago

Really, really beautiful. Well done.

marvvelous 13y ago

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.

jparmer 13y ago
Here's one of the recent Washington Post articles with an embedded Plotly graph: http://wapo.st/13osx4W http://wapo.st/13osx4W
- jparmer 13y ago
  Here's the most recent embedded Plotly graph in the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/19zFL1B http://wapo.st/19zFL1B

bchartoff 13y ago

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

jparmer 13y ago

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

possiblemat 13y ago

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 http://vimeo.com/66085662

jparmer 13y ago
Thanks! We are indeed huge fans of @worrydream

sheetjs 13y ago

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

jparmer 13y ago
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 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.

dgupta599 13y ago

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

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12345 13y ago

http://mehdibenlafkih.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/graph-sexual-harassment.gif http://mehdibenlafkih.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/graph-sexu... can you guys make pie graph?

happysapper 13y ago

Really fantastically fantastic.