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Data Visualisation Guide

Plotly

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Data visualisation tools

Free, open source

plotly.com/graphing-libraries

Plotly is a library to make interactive charts and maps in wide range of programming languages, including Python, R and JavaScript. It is a chart template based library, with some less common and specialised chart types, including 3D visualisations.

The available chart types in the Plotly Chart Studio, an online platform based on the Plotly Javascript library. Source: Maarten Lambrechts, CC BY SA 4.0

The interactivity of Plotly charts includes tooltips, filtering data, zooming and rotating (for 3D charts). Plotly can also have a button to download the chart as SVG, PNG, JPG and WebP files.

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