As temperatures soar this July, we’re excited to help you beat the heat with some of the coolest new features in data and AI. Dive into the latest Plotly updates designed to enhance your collaboration, control, and customizability, all while making a tangible impact with your data.
In this newsletter:
- July Event
- Upcoming Events
- Community Spotlight
- Survey for Feedback on Plotly..ps/.js
- Resources
- Plotly Careers
☀️ July Events
Plotly Ships: Data Apps for Everyone
90% of data and AI applications fail to make it to production or reach decision-makers. Moving towards a future where data drives real business impact through action and interactivity is crucial. Our latest product release focused on enhancing collaboration, control, and customizability.
At our launch event, we explored the future of dynamic data and AI. Here’s a breakdown of what was covered:
- Keynote: All Aboard for Data Apps for Everyone
- Plotly’s Story: Evolution and Core Values
- New Features: Plotly App Studio
- Market Overview: Needs and Customer Insights
- Feature Demo: Global Environment Variables and Horizontal Pod Scaling
- Community Programs and Updates
- Roadmap & Future Plans
Attendees heard insights from industry experts, Plotly customers, and our leadership on upcoming updates. They also learned about new community programs and activities from Plotly advocates. Watch the recording or check out the curated playlist to start your journey with advanced data apps!
Headlining the launch event was Plotly App Studio. We are excited to announce a special summer promotion for the feature. Learn how to get started!
SciPy 2024
Plotly team members Greg Wilson and Martha Cryan attended the 23rd annual SciPy conference in Tacoma, Washington!
Aakash Varambhia, Data Science Lead at Johnson Matthey, also gave a presentation on how he and his team use Plotly to provide cutting-edge imaging data science to support research and development.
😎 Upcoming Events
Dash Enterprise: Live Demo
Our upcoming live Dash Enterprise demo is on August 14 at 12pm EDT. Join Mingo Sanchez and Carolina Herrera as they demonstrate how Dash Enterprise empowers you and your team to build and manage scalable, interactive, and user-friendly production-grade data applications.
Discover Dash apps, ML tuning models, and dynamic UI components and workspaces. They’ll also highlight exciting features like Snapshot Engine, Design Kit, and the new Plotly App Studio.
CDAO Chicago
We’re excited to announce that Plotly will be at CDAO Chicago 2024 from August 7–8. Join us for two days of insightful sessions, networking opportunities, and the latest advancements in data and analytics. Our team of experts will be on hand to showcase Dash Enterprise and share how Plotly can help your team enhance its data visualization and analytical capabilities.
It’s not too late to register!
Ai4 2024
The Plotly team will be in Las Vegas from August 12–14 to attend Ai4 2024, North America’s largest artificial intelligence industry event. We’ll chat with enterprise leaders from across multiple industries and discuss how Plotly Dash puts data & AI into action by creating scalable, interactive data apps.
Register to see us at Booth 103!
🤝 Community Spotlight
➡️ Databricks LLM (DBRX) with Dash App Building Challenge — Last month, we invited the LLM builder community to create large language models using Databricks and develop front-end app interfaces with Dash. Standout apps include the QuizDash app by Cees and DoomBerg app by MarketMaker. See the winning apps!
➡️ Figure Fridays — Plotly is excited to introduce Figure Friday! Each week, we’ll release a new dataset and a sample figure. You’ll have until midnight next Thursday to enhance the figure, create your own Plotly figure, or build a Dash app. This initiative aims to boost your Plotly skills, foster community collaboration, showcase your creations to the world, and build your portfolio. Learn more and join us!
➡️ Plotly Hangout — Plotly Community Manager Adam Schroeder chatted with John Kang, Director of Planning Analytics and Industrial Engineering at Cox Automotive. John shared his experience with data and workforce analytics at Cox Automotive, discussed technical tools for Dash applications, and offered career advice for those in analytics. The recording is coming soon (keep an eye out on our YouTube channel). The next one will feature Jeff Butler from CIBC Capital Markets. Sign up now!
📝 We’d want your feedback!
We’d like to invite you to participate in our Graphs and Charts User Experience Survey. Your feedback is invaluable as we strive to enhance Plotly.js and Plotly.py, making them even more powerful and user-friendly tools for creating charts. By participating, you’ll help us gain insights into your experience and preferences, which will directly influence future improvements and features.
Whether you’re a data scientist, analyst, developer, or any other professional who relies on Plotly for data visualization, your input is crucial. Submit your feedback.
📚 Resources
Explore our latest headlines for in-depth insights on essential topics for data science teams:
- Plotly Receives Advisory Services and Funding to Accelerate AI and Data Science Apps for Production
- Complete Guide to Data Apps With Industry Examples
- Plotly Ships: Summer Release 2024
💼 Join the Plotly team
Join the Plotly team and be part of shaping the future of data science. Explore our available roles and grow with us!
- Solutions Architect, Python
- Customer Success Engineer, Infrastructure, UK Remote
- Senior Software Developer in Test
- Staff Software Engineer, Full stack (Remote in United States of America)
- Staff Software Engineer, Full stack (Remote in Canada)
- Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Technical Account Manager
Discover global job opportunities seeking Plotly and Dash skills in our Plotly Community. Check them out!
👋 Thanks for reading!
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