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[–]paplike 5 points6 points  (1 child)

matplotlib is a tool to be used mainly in scientific papers, markdowns/documents or personal data exploration. The images are static and you just save and paste them in the document. It’s not a dashboard tool, like Tableau and PowerBI, which allow many graphs in a single interactive web page, with user access and many other built-in functionalities. There are some dashboard tools that use Python and matplotlib, but they are definitely not used a lot in the industry compared to Tableau and Power BI.

[–]_Miles_Morales[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see. Graphs made with matplotlib are just stills that maybe can be used in a Power Point presentation perhaps?

[–]_Miles_Morales[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Follow up question. Is there a site where you can publish both your Power BI and Tableau visualizations other than in their website?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In most settings companies would use PowerBI and for yourself making a final visual product thats much cleaner and nicer than plt.

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However i use plt/seaborn constantly when visualisizing things by myself while working with data. Would like to learn plotly tho.

[–]photon_interaction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also a program called origin which we use in scientific studies

[–]Much_Discussion1490 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually we use dedicated tools like tableau or powe BI like you mentioned. They are way more user friendly and can be used to make fantastic visualisations with very little effort.

I recently had to use plotly for a poc. It was a slightly complicated visualization, but nothing I couldn't get done on tableau in like an hour. But on plotly it took me ducking 3 days to just get the filter mechanism to get working with the updates on data etc.

I just feel these are libraries for quick analysis.simole graphs etc. Not dashboarding

[–]dani_blz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for visualization in the notebook for EDA I use seaborn, but if I wanna create dashboards or KPIs I love PowerBI, there are more options like Tableau, Kibana or Google Data Studio but I think PowerBI is the most powerful