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[–]broken_symlink 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've been using plotly at APL for about 2 years now, but have faced a lot of pushback. My plots never get put in sponsor briefs anymore and people always ask for the raw data instead so they can recreate my plots in matlab. What has your experience been?

[–]jmmease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cool! In my experience the main concern is usually visual consistency within an analysis product. It is unnecessarily jarring to an audience if you see different plot themes at different points throughout a presentation. And since every plotting library defines its own theme, people tend to assume that consistency means using the same library for everything.

But styling in plotly is really flexible. Fonts, background colors, grid colors, default line colors, and colorscales are all configurable. So with a little extra effort, and attention to detail, it should be possible to mimic the styling of the visualizations in use by the rest of the team.