quebec 2012 headquarters canada website plot.ly plotly also known by its url plot.ly 1 is an online analytics and data visualization tool headquartered in montreal quebec . plotly provides online graphing analytics and statistics tools for individuals and collaboration as well as scientific graphing libraries for python r matlab perl julia arduino and rest . contents 1 history 2 products 3 technology 4 external links 5 references history edit plotly was founded by alex johnson jack parmer chris parmer and matthew sundquist . 2 the founders backgrounds are in science energy and data analysis and visualization . 2 early employees include christophe viau a canadian software engineer and ben postlethwaite a canadian geophysicist . 3 plotly was named one of the top 20 hottest innovative companies in canada by the canadian innovation exchange . 4 plotly was featured in startup row at pycon 2013 . 5 products edit plotly offers six main products plot.ly has a graphical user interface for importing and analyzing data into a grid and using stats tools . 6 graphs can be embedded or downloaded . mainly used to make creating graphs faster and more efficient . api libraries for python 7 r 8 matlab 9 node.js 10 julia 11 and arduino 12 and a rest api . 13 plotly can also be used to style interactive graphs with ipython . 14 figure converters which convert matplotlib 15 ggplot2 16 and igor pro 17 graphs into interactive online graphs . plotly apps for google chrome . 18 plotly.js is an open source 19 javascript library for creating graphs and dashboards . 20 plotly enterprise an on premises installation of plotly . 21 a gallery of plotly graphs technology edit plotly was built using python and the django framework with a front end using javascript and the visualization library d3.js html and css . files are hosted on amazon s3 . 22 external links edit official website apis on github references edit plotly make charts and dashboards online . plot.ly . retrieved 2016 01 07 . a b czikk joseph july 29 2013 . ex silicon valley kids to launch web startup in montreal . montreal gazette . about . plotly . retrieved 2013 10 29 . levy carmi november 11 2013 . cix 2013 celebrates canada s innovation economy . yahoo finance canada . curtin brian march 11 2013 . announcing our startup row selections . pycon . machlis sharon november 6 2013 . beauty and brains plotly combines dataviz and serious statistical analysis . computer world . graphical representations of data . python wiki . november 4 2013 . plotly s r library . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . plotly s matlab library . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . plotly s node.js library . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . plotly s julia library . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . romano zoe november 4 2013 . create interactive graphs logging arduino data with plotly . arduino blog . apis . plotly . retrieved 2013 10 29 . plotly ipython gallery . ipython notebook viewer . retrieved 2013 12 10 . online interactive matplotlib graphs . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . online interactive ggplot2 graphs . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . online interactive igor pro graphs . plotly . retrieved 2014 10 12 . plotly . google chrome store . retrieved 2013 10 29 . open source announcement . retrieved 2015 11 17 . plotly.js . plotly . retrieved 2013 10 29 . plotly enterprise . plotly . retrieved 2014 09 20 . machlis sharon november 6 2013 . beauty and brains plotly combines dataviz and serious statistical analysis . computer world . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title plotly & oldid 741916919 categories business intelligence companiesbusiness softwarebusiness software companiescompanies based in montrealcomputer librariesdata analysis softwaredata management softwaredata visualization softwarefree data visualization softwarefree graphics softwarefree science softwarefree statistical softwarejavascriptjavascript librariesjavascript visualization toolkitsmathematical softwareoffice softwareplotting softwarescience softwarestatistical softwaretime series softwarevisualization graphic visualization api navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 13 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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