Plotly

Plotly was founded by Alex Johnson, Jack Parmer, Chris Parmer, and Matthew Sundquist.[1]

The founders' backgrounds are in science, energy, and data analysis and visualization.[1] Early employees include Christophe Viau, a Canadian software engineer and Ben Postlethwaite, a Canadian geophysicist.[2] Plotly was named one of the Top 20 Hottest Innovative Companies in Canada by the Canadian Innovation Exchange.[3] Plotly was featured in "startup row" at PyCon 2013,[4] and sponsored the SciPy 2018 conference.[5]

Plotly raised $5.5 million during its Series A funding, led by MHS Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, Rho Ventures, Real Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.[6]

The Boston Globe and Washington Post newsrooms have produced data journalism using Plotly.[7][8]

Plotly's main products include:

• Dash is an open-source Python and R framework for building web-based analytic applications.[9]
• Dash DAQ is an open-source package for building data acquisition GUIs to use with scientific instruments. It is built on Dash.[10]
• Chart Studio has a graphical user interface for importing and analyzing data into a grid and using stats tools.[11] Graphs can be embedded or downloaded. Mainly used to make creating graphs faster and more efficient.
• API libraries for Python,[12] R,[13] MATLAB,[14] Node.js,[15] Julia,[16] and Arduino[17] and a REST API.[18] Plotly can also be used to style interactive graphs with Jupyter notebook.[19]
• Figure Converters which convert matplotlib,[20] ggplot2,[21] and IGOR Pro[22] graphs into interactive, online graphs.
• Plotly Apps for Google Chrome.[23]
• Plotly.js is an open source[24] JavaScript library for creating graphs and dashboards.[25]
• Plotly Enterprise an on-premises installation of Plotly.[26]

A gallery of Plotly graphs

Expose plotly dash apps as Django tags. Multiple Dash apps can then be embedded into a single web page, persist and share internal state, and also have access to the current user and session variables.

Plotly was built using Python and the Django framework, with a front end using JavaScript and the visualization library D3.js, HTML and CSS. Files are hosted on Amazon S3.[27]

• matplotlib

• Official website