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The history of autonomous vehicle datasets and 3 open-source Python apps for visualizing them

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Integrate machine learning and big data into real-time business intelligence with Snowflake and Plotly’s Dash

.wp-block-image figcaption { color: #555d66; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; } Business intelligence (BI) is an indispensable tool for many, if not most, modern organizations. BI covers an entire gamut of end-to-end activities from data mining to reporting, all carried out … Continue reading →

Understanding Word Embedding Arithmetic: Why there’s no single answer to “King - Man + Woman = ?”

code { background-color: #eaeaea; } Representing words in a numerical format has been a challenging and important first step in building any kind of Machine Learning (ML) system for processing natural language, be it for modelling social media sentiment, classifying emails, recognizing names … Continue reading →

Pattern-Matching Callbacks in Dash

Learn about this feature in a special live webinar and AMA on May 7, 2020 at 1pm EDT with Plotly’s CTO and cofounder, Alex Johnson. Written by: Alex Johnson, Plotly CTO Before we start, I’d like to thank codefour for generously sponsoring this open-source feature and … Continue reading →

Customizable Dash front-ends for word2vec and NLP backends

“When is Mom’s birthday?” “Remind me to pick up flowers and a cake this afternoon.” “How do I get to the nearest flower shop?” “Find the best bakeries near me.” “Find a route to Mom’s house.” In our modern times, personal assistants are not exclusive to executives in … Continue reading →

Why Dash uses the MIT license (and NOT a copyleft GPL license)

Is GPL software overly restrictive?  Software licensing can be a personal or philosophical choice, and we’re not looking to incite controversy. But, we do want to examine why more and more developers are opting for permissive licensing.  At Plotly, we offer our flagship … Continue reading →

Part II: Deploying a Dash Application to Operationalize Machine Learning Models

Note: This guide is intended for use with version 3.3 of Plotly On-Premise. In Part I of the tutorial, we created and configured an Azure VM. We then installed Dash Enterprise on the Azure VM. Finally, we configured Dash Enterprise and verified that our hostname pointed to the Azure VM’s … Continue reading →

Part I: Operationalizing R models with Dash Enterprise and Microsoft Azure

While R offers excellent support for machine learning, the process of operationalizing ML models as interactive web applications offers a promising tool for collaboration and data visualization. A well-designed web application can help close the gap between analysts and project stakeholders by … Continue reading →

Introducing Dash Bio for R

Dash and the R programming language offer innovative avenues for bioinformaticians, pharmaceutical developers, and researchers to synergistically analyze, visualize, and present data within an interactive web application. Plotly’s Dash Bio package makes it easier than ever to build … Continue reading →

R comes to oil + gas

Tools capable of producing rich analytic reports and data visualizations are a valuable resource for decision makers in any field. Dash is an open-sourced based framework for building dynamic web applications that seamlessly integrates interactive graphics and tabular data summaries, serving as a … Continue reading →

Modern reporting for R with Dash

Creating an effective, informative, and aesthetically appealing report to showcase your data can be tedious: it’s often difficult to display your data and your plots together in an uncluttered manner, and even harder to implement interactivity between the individual elements. Dash for R … Continue reading →

Dash has gone full R

This is a reblog from the “Announcing Dash for R” announcement originally published July 10. Dash, the fastest growing framework for building analytic web applications on top of Python models, is now available for the R programming … Continue reading →

7 Interactive Bioinformatics Plots made in Python and R

Plotly serves a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field. Here are 7 resources in Python and R created by plotly … Continue reading →

Building rich analytic web apps has never been easier

We’re entering a golden age of the “analytics developer.” Cutting edge companies like AirBnB, Apple, and S&P are no longer buying off-the-shelf BI software. Instead, they build their own targeted BI platforms that succeed where traditional Big BI falls flat: Agility, … Continue reading →

PLOTCON NYC: Edward Tufte, Dash workshop, Charts for React.js, and Discount for R-Bloggers

Edward tufte keyNoTe Edward Tufte will be kicking off PLOTCON NYC this year with his keynote talk. Edward is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization including, … Continue reading →