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Plotly is the company blog at moderndata.plot.ly, writing about data and programming. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Nteract: Revolutionizing the Notebook Experience”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link this Plotly data blog for its sports analytics work, such as an NBA player movement post. The one comment on it is a neutral link to that post.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Nteract: Revolutionizing the Notebook Experience
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. The NBA is already doing this for Basketball: https://moderndata.plot.ly/nba-player-movement-using-plotly-... I imagine it's slightly harder in football stadiums due to size, but that's a money problem for the amount of cameras.

    Comment linking /nba-player-movement-using-plotly-animations/

    on “Analyze a Soccer Game Using Tensorflow Object Detection and OpenCV (2018)”
  2. Submitted Ggplot2 docs remade in D3.js as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Nteract: Revolutionizing the Notebook Experience as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Machine learning visualizations made in Python or R as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Interactive R visualizations with D3, ggplot2, and RStudio as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Colorlover: Color scales in Python for humans as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Nteract: Revolutionizing the notebook experience as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted NBA Shots Analysis Using Plotly Shapes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Nteract: Revolutionizing the notebook experience as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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