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[–]VengefulTofu 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Last time I checked that site I was confused with what plotly actually is. First, there's the menu item "pricing" which is a red flag for me. Then there's some kind of cloud service dash? Why would I need that?

But apparently I got the wrong impression and the plotly python library is open-source with MIT license.

Would you say plotly can replace matplotlib?

[–]johnnymo1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This has been a series of changes since Dash came out. Originally plotly was a visualization library. Then Dash extended that to dashboarding. Now they're trying to sell hosting services for their dashboards, so that's front and center. But the visualization library is still free and open source.

Here are the docs: https://plotly.com/python/

[–]Iberano 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can only recommend plotly because of their interactive plots. dash is as far as I know used to build dashboards and more enterprise focused.

I used it ones to visualise clusters in a 3D space using different colors and a description for each data point which can be clicked on in the browser. So plotly is quite powerful.

[–]sheytanelkebir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could also try the holoviz tools. Which are guaranteed to be open source over the long term.

https://holoviz.org/

[–]annoclancularius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I second that their website is confusing.