
Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly
The PolicyViz Podcast
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How to Use Plotly JS to Scrape Graphs
The core plotly is a JavaScript scrapping library. It's built on top of WebGL and D3.js. There are other libraries in Python, MATLAB and R that use plotly JS as sort of the rendering engine. And then you can use those languages and those libraries on your own machine, self-hosted, free all MIT license. Then there's a plot.ly in your browser. So HTTPS, colon slash slash, plot.ly. We have an online spreadsheet and interactive tools to edit and create these graphs. The whole host of sharing permissions sort of like Google Docs. For private use, there's we have a subscription that you can get on.
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