George Zipf popularized an idea—Zipf’s Law—that approximates populations of cities, distribution of money in counties, and how frequently words are used. Nobel Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugmans wrote of Zipf’s Law that “the usual complaint about economic theory is that our models are oversimplified — that they offer ... [Read more...]

This post summarizes and visualizes eight key ideas we’ve heard from data visualization experts. Check out our first Case Study to learn more about using Plotly Enterprise on-premise, on your servers. To get started on free online graphing like in this post, check out our tutorials. Make Interactive Graphs ... [Read more...]

Famous laws, theorems, and observations are often named after the person who proposed the idea. These “eponymous laws" can be graphed. We do so in this post, using our free, web-based product. Contact us about getting a trial of Plotly Enterprise on your servers. Moore’s Law Transistors are used ... [Read more...]

Plotly’s interactive 3D graphs let you make graphs from (click the links for tutorials): our web app, Excel, Google Docs, Python, MATLAB, and R. Click any image below to go to the full-screen interactive version. Also, news for users with on-premise needs. Plotly On-Premise can be hosted on a ... [Read more...]

Plotly’s interactive 3D graphs have new capabilities: multiple scenes, streaming graphs, and contour lines. Plot from our web app, Excel, Google Docs, Python, MATLAB, and R. Contact us if you’re interested in running Plotly on-premise to integrate your own applications. Click any image to go to the full-screen ... [Read more...]

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LaTeX lets you create lovely, complex mathematical functions from typed text. Plotly will render LaTeX in annotations, labels, and titles. In this post, we’ll show how it works. 1. MATLAB plotting with LaTeX First, here’s an example using Plotly’s MATLAB API. This is a visualization of Bessel Functions ... [Read more...]