Why developers like Plotly

What is Plotly?

Plotly.js is the only open-source JavaScript library for data visualization in the sciences and engineering. Open-source interfaces to Plotly.js are available for Python, R, MATLAB, and React.

Plotly is a tool in the Charting Libraries category of a tech stack.

Plotly is an open source tool with 11.3K GitHub stars and 1.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Plotly's open source repository on GitHub

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Who uses Plotly?

Companies

26 companies reportedly use Plotly in their tech stacks, including tools, Ruangguru, and ADEXT.

tools

Ruangguru

ADEXT

Graphai

Wellzesta

ITISIT sp. ...

Algo Edge Technologies ...

Platform

Auterion Insights ...

Developers

126 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Plotly.

My Stack

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My Stack

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My Stack

Plotly Integrations

Python, React, Jupyter, MATLAB, and Julia are some of the popular tools that integrate with Plotly. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Plotly.

Python

React

Jupyter

MATLAB

Julia

TimescaleDB ...

import.io

Streamlit

Anvil

Why developers like Plotly?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Plotly

Top Reasons

Great support for complex and multiple axes

Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps

Beautiful visualizations

Impressive support for webgl 3D charts

Charts are easy to share with a cloud account

Powerful out-of-the-box featureset

Webgl chart types are extremely performant

Active user base

Publication quality image export

Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts

Private Decisions at about Plotly

Private to your company

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by members of with Plotly in their tech stack.

Aidi Tan

a few seconds ago | 2 upvotes · 184.1K views

Highcharts

Chart.js

Plotly

D3.js

#Visualization

Here is my stack on #Visualization. @FusionCharts and Highcharts are easy to use but only free for non-commercial. Chart.js and Plotly are two lovely tools for commercial use under the MIT license. And D3.js would be my last choice only if a complex customized plot is needed.

Public Decisions about Plotly

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Plotly in their tech stack.

Tim Abbott

Founder at Zulip · May 16, 2019 | 6 upvotes · 85.7K views

Zulip

Plotly

D3.js

We use Plotly (just their open source stuff) for Zulip's user-facing and admin-facing statistics graphs because it's a reasonably well-designed JavaScript graphing library.

If you've tried using D3.js, it's a pretty poor developer experience, and that translates to spending a bunch of time getting the graphs one wants even for things that are conceptually pretty basic. Plotly isn't amazing (it's decent), but it's way better than than D3 unless you have very specialized needs.

Aidi Tan

May 31, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 184.1K views

Highcharts

Chart.js

Plotly

D3.js

#Visualization

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Plotly's Features

Feature parity with MATLAB/matplotlib graphing
Online chart editor
Fully interactive (hover, zoom, pan)
SVG and WebGL backends
Publication-quality image export

Plotly Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Plotly?

Highcharts

Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types.

Bokeh

It is an interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of versatile graphics, and to extend this capability with high-performance interactivity over very large or streaming datasets. It can help anyone who would like to quickly and easily create interactive plots, dashboards, and data applications.

Marvel

A super simple tool that turns any image (including PSDs) or sketch into interactive prototypes for any device. Powered by Dropbox.

Matplotlib

It is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. It can be used in Python scripts, the Python and IPython shells, the Jupyter notebook, web application servers, and four graphical user interface toolkits.

Storyline

Storyline makes it easy to create, test & publish Alexa skills in minutes with a visual interface and pre-built templates.

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