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Plotly Chart Studio

Score8 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Plotly Chart Studio?

Plotly headquartered in Montreal offers Chart Studio, a data visualization tool with an open source and free cloud editions, as well as enterprise editions deployable on-cloud or on-premise. The vendor describes Chart Studio as a sophisticated editor for creating D3.js and WebGL charts.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Plotly Chart Studio has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 6.8

  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

    Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

    Category average: 8

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 6.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

    Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

    Category average: 8.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Plotly Chart Studio.
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Interactive charts the easy way!!

Incentivized
Annie JainView profile
Consultant in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Connects to almost every kind of data source like SQL, Excel, MS Access, flat files and more.
  • Charts get saved to the repository and are re-used by multiple users.
  • No need of manual intervention in order to refresh the charts every time the data gets changed.

Cons

  • No mobile apps available.
  • There is no 24x7 web chat support available.
  • Training videos are not available.

Return on Investment

  • Improvement in productivity as charts can be shared with teams and feedback can be collected, consolidated and incorporated in the design and charts.
  • Charts are aligned with the organization theme and colors and one doesn't need to put in effort every time to do that.
  • No upfront capital expenditure and minimum user criteria helps the organization to keep the costs down.

A web based open source visualization tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Beautiful user interface (web based for app)
  • Open source and free
  • Connects to any type of data including json, databases, csv
  • Multiple users can concurrently access visualizations
  • No need to refresh visualizations on data change.

Cons

  • Lack of customer support
  • Sometimes fails to visualize extremely large datasets ( probably also due to computer resource constraints)

Return on Investment

  • Free software for faster visualization generation
  • Better collaboration with other researchers on visualizations
  • Real time inference on data changes

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Desktop