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by Donckele 1142 days ago
If you’re using plotly (js) and good at it then stick with it as it gives you so much flexibility - especially with scientific plotting.

I saw the examples for OP and did not see anything challenging Plotly for my use cases.
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MattPalmer1086 1142 days ago
Yes, this is for charts on experimental data. Plotly seemed good for that.
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tophtucker 1142 days ago
Out of curiosity I’d love to see any examples where you think Plotly is especially strong for scientific plotting. I’ve used Plot lots and Plotly none, but I’d guess the big Plotly advantages right now are

- rich tooltips (coming soon in Plot)

- interactive pan & zoom

- multiple panels with shared scales? (like for marginal distributions; you can combine with HTML of course, but it’s not easy/built-in in Plot)

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MattPalmer1086 1142 days ago
The interactive stuff and tooltips are useful for exploring the data for sure.
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