Hey all,
Matt here, from Plotly. We just launched our beta, and would love to hear from experts like the folks on this list.
You can use the
Plotly APIs (
https://plot.ly/api/) (in MATLAB, R, Python, Arduino, REST, Perl, and Julia) to make interactive, publication-quality plots in your web browser. It has all the interactive aspects of D3 you'd want, and we let you always keep your graphs and data together, and collaborate with others--meaning you can share a file and edit your code, data, and graph together.
It's also easy to interface Plotly's online graphing tools with your desktop environment. So you can send data to your Plotly account and view your graphs in your web browser. That means you can style with code or with our online interface, share your work publicly with a url or privately among other Plotly members, and access your graphs from anywhere.
Here's an example graph:
https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/, rendered with
this Python Script. So my preferred way of making a graph is: start with code, and make the graph. Then, use the GUI to change it around and polish it. Then, share the interactive graph and data with the URL, download it, or embed it as an iframe.
We have a lot of our favorite graphs on our website at
facebook.com/plotly. If you have any feedback or questions, please let me know.
All my best,
Matt