2. Answer candidate
for today’s homework
• Creating Network Diagrams in Plotly from Julia
– http://badhessian.org/2014/05/creating-network-
diagrams-in-plotly-from-julia/
3. Plotly is
• Data visualization tool
• Good for Data Journalist and Data Blogger
– Harvard Business Review
• http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/presentation-tools-that-go-beyond-
next-slide-please/
– Washington Post
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/1
4/do-low-taxes-on-the-rich-leave-the-middle-class-with-lower-
wages/
4. Strong points of Plotly are
• Web Figure
• Exact Value
• Data Share
• Streaming
5. Web Figure, Exact Value, Data Share
• NBA Superstars on Social Media
– http://mashable.com/2013/10/29/nba-all-star-social-media-
team/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
• Tax rates and income percentiles
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/14/do-low-
taxes-on-the-rich-leave-the-middle-class-with-lower-wages/
• Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy
– https://plot.ly/~AnnaG/3/per-capita-healthcare-spending-vs-average-life-
expectancy-oecd-countries-2011/
• Chocolate Bar Chart
– https://plot.ly/~MattSundquist/1295/the-chocolate-bar-chart-each-type-of-
chocolates-share-of-the-total-market/