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03/13/2026

📸 Pictured: Plotly's Senior Solutions Architect Alex Hsu and Technical Product Manager Nathan Drezner at the Plotly office with our newest intern, Hattie!

Come meet more of the team at our Plotly Community Gathering, Studio Launch & Decade of Open-Source Party! It’s happening on May 12th at Apna Chulha & Blondie's Bar in SF from 1 PM - 2 AM.

Connect with other data scientists, community members, and the Plotly team: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7436914610198274048/

03/12/2026

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored discoveries and ideas that shape our world in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Founded through the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the awards distributed by The Norwegian Nobel Institute / Det Norske Nobelinstitutt recognize contributions that “confer the greatest benefit to humankind.” Over more than a century, the prizes have been awarded hundreds of times to more than a thousand individuals and organizations. The winners demonstrate a timeline of scientific discovery, cultural achievement, and global progress.

Using the Plotly Studio laureates dataset, we explored Nobel history through interactive visualizations: trends in laureates over time, geographic distribution across continents, the age of winners when they receive the prize, gender representation across categories, and how prize amounts have evolved.

Together, these charts reveal patterns that are hard to see in raw data alone: the growth of collaborative science, the geographic concentration of awards, and how different disciplines recognize achievement at different stages of life. Dive into the full story and explore the graphs that bring over a century of Nobel impact to life, or make your own. This dashboard was made with no coding entirely from prompts, and took about 15 minutes. You can make dashboards like this and connect to any data source or database.

👉Explore the interactive app: https://tinyurl.com/4jppuv59

👉Download the dataset: https://tinyurl.com/mwtbs3vf

👉Read the blog: https://tinyurl.com/ms2xr6xy

02/11/2026

Happy Wednesday! ✨

The Plotly Engineering team just released our new Benchmarks page: 302 canonical datasets from data science, Python, R, ML, and AI—each transformed into an interactive dashboard in minutes with zero prompting.

Explore all 302 here: https://tinyurl.com/57t6awdu

What surprised us most: datasets that typically take days or weeks to visualize properly were rendering into publication-ready dashboards faster than we could click through them. Each includes a standalone URL where you can access the data, generate your own dashboard with no prompting, and share instantly on Plotly Cloud. Let us know in the comments if there are any datasets we should add to the list.

These are baseline results. No hand-tuning. No custom design. Just raw data to insight.

Plotly Studio makes sophisticated, interactive dashboards accessible to anyone. No coding or analytics experience required. It feels like having a world-class data team working alongside you.

This was the original dream of Plotly, and it’s incredibly exciting to see it come to life. Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible 💙

01/27/2026

🌋 We just turned the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Kaggle Global Volcano Database into a fully interactive dashboard with a density map, bubble map, treemap, violin plot, box plot, histogram, and rich geographic views that reveal patterns instantly. See the app here: https://2fbf8f29-b2f0-4966-92f4-7774cd000956.plotly.app

The maps show tectonic-scale clustering along plate boundaries. The tables and graphs compare across volcano types, countries, and eruption histories. Beautiful interactive visuals can make a complex global dataset intuitive, easy, and fun to explore.

What would normally take months of data prep, code, meetings, emails, spreadsheets, and iteration came together in a few minutes of chat with no heavy lifting. And one click to securely publish to the Plotly Cloud 🙌

Plotly Studio makes it possible for anyone to instantly go from raw CSVs or databases to publication-ready collaborative analytics, statistics, data science, and maps.

Try it yourself, download the dataset, and build something better: https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/volcano-db-csv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=27jan2026

01/23/2026

This interactive churn analysis app was built using the classic
Kaggle + IBM Telco Customer Churn dataset. Plotly Studio turned raw customer data into 3D charts, histograms, pivot tables, and actionable business insight with no coding and just a few prompts. What once required months of analysis, coordination, and custom development can now be done in minutes.

The results are intuitive and useful. Churn risk is concentrated early in the customer lifecycle, month-to-month contracts drive disproportionate churn, and service bundling materially improves retention. When combined with customer lifetime value modeling, it becomes clear where retention investments have the highest payoff.

Rather than treating churn as a static metric, this approach shows how interactive dashboards help teams identify leverage points and guide strategy.

See the interactive dashboard here 👉 https://cb732d25-1db4-40d6-9ea2-54efa756106d.plotly.app
Download the data and make your own version: https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/telco-customer-churn-by-ibm-csv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=23jan2026

01/20/2026

This dashboard explores Walmart store openings from 1962 to 2006. Using Plotly Studio, this entire dashboard was created in a few minutes. It includes bar charts, scatter plots, time series, 3D charts, violin plots, treemaps, and county and state choropleth maps, all interactive and easy to explore.

Plotly Studio is a shift in how we can work with data. People who have never written code can now build and share dashboards that in any other context require teams of expert data scientists, developers, infrastructure, software, and months of work.

Explore the interactive dashboard here:
https://e0e66ab8-ae49-4862-b487-12d93346653d.plotly.app/

Download Studio and the data to build your own:
https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/1962-2006-walmart-store-openings-csv/utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=20jan2026

01/15/2026

This dashboard uses MICHELIN Guide restaurant data to create global maps, treemaps, statistical charts, and comparisons to show patterns across stars, geography, cuisine, price, and reviews. You can explore individual restaurants on a map, zoom out to city- and country-level trends, or see the data in a table.

Plotly Studio makes what would have taken months happen in minutes directly from a CSV or database. If you have data, Studio turns it into something beautiful people want to explore and interact with.

Download the data: https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/michelin-reviews-csv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=15jan2026

01/14/2026

Plotly Studio wrote thousands of lines of code to create an interactive dashboard with six graphs, a map, and a data table that functions like a database. All we did was upload a CSV file about German weather, then securely publish and share it on Plotly Cloud.

Studio is a breakthrough frontier project for Plotly. It's a leap forward four generations for the software and tools we build. We're thrilled to share it with you.

With Studio, it's like having a team of data scientists, statisticians, designers, and software engineers at your fingertips. Try it yourself now. Studio is free, easy to download, and you can publish dashboards in minutes.

📊 Download the data: https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/rainfall-csv/
🎨 Interactive app (with prompt to add 3D chart and violin plot): https://28e85ada-63bb-4660-9bb4-c2b77fcc1adb.plotly.app/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=14jan2026

01/13/2026

Using Plotly Studio, you can upload or connect to any data source and make and share world-class interactive dashboard in seconds for free. No prompting or coding required. Here’s an example built with Gapminder Foundation data where Studio generated the full app on the first go. With one additional prompt, we added a bubble chart to explore GDP per capita and life expectancy with sizing based on population and color based on continent.

Explore the live dashboard here: https://607ddcb3-fa9f-4db4-9f2f-0f826e7c6c83.plotly.app/

Download the data to build your own at https://plotly.com/studio/benchmarks/px-gapminder-lex-csv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=matt-benchmarking-dashboards&utm_content=13jan2026

08/09/2024