Plotly Newsletter, September 2025

6 min readSep 30, 2025

September is here, and so is a jam-packed Plotly event calendar! Whether you’re joining online or in person, this month is full of workshops, meetups, and conferences to inspire ideas and explore the future of analytics with Plotly.

In this newsletter:

Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon
Any App, Any Scale: The Plotly Publishing Playbook
Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics
September Events Recap
Upcoming Events
Plotly User Story Spotlight
Community Spotlight
Resources

👾 Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon

We are excited to invite you to the Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon, a global hackathon where the community can showcase what’s possible with AI-powered analytics in Plotly Studio. This is your opportunity to build a fully functional data app that is fast, beautiful, and insightful, using either your own dataset or the pre-selected OECD Wellbeing dataset.

All participants will receive one month of free access to the Plotly Pro plan, along with the chance to win over $1,750 in cash prizes, Plotly swag, and extended Studio usage. Submissions will be judged on technical implementation, data exploration and storytelling, visualization creativity, app design, and originality. The deadline to submit your app is October 6, 2025. The hackathon is open worldwide and is designed to be beginner-friendly and AI-powered from the start.

Join the Vibe-a-Thon and show us what you can create!

🚢 Any App, Any Scale: The Plotly Publishing Playbook

Every brilliant data app deserves to be seen but publishing it the right way can make or break your strategy. Should you go cloud, keep it behind the firewall, or find the balance between rapid sharing and enterprise security?

Join our upcoming webinar on October 22 to explore a strategic framework for publishing data applications at any scale. Learn how leading organizations tackle real-world challenges, from rapid external collaboration to mission-critical internal apps.

🤖 Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics

Couldn’t make it to our latest webinar? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We walked through how to generate ✨ stunning ✨ data apps directly from datasets with AI, customize interactivity and styling through natural language outlines, and optimize app components for clarity and usability. There’s also lots of exciting industry commentary on the direction of analytics from our expert speakers, so you don’t want to miss it!

You’ll also learn best practices for publishing your apps to Plotly Cloud, from setting custom URLs to enabling public sharing, plus strategies for managing AI tokens efficiently so you can iterate faster.

Welcome to analytics at the speed of thought. Watch the recording!

🌻 September Events Recap

Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics

“What I really like about Plotly is that if you simply drop your data in without much prompting, it automatically generates basic descriptive analyses. But the potential goes much deeper: you can move into predictive analytics, time series analysis, decomposition, logistic regression, and classification. You can perform sophisticated analyses quite easily from simple descriptive prompts, without needing to write code, though you always have the option if you want to.”

— Brian Julius, a 6X LinkedIn Top Voice and long-time Power BI pro

Catch our latest webinar to hear from expert practitioners and thought leaders like Brian on how AI is shaking up the world of analytics. Plus, be among the very first to view a Plotly Studio demo! It’s sleek, intuitive, and powered by agentic AI under the hood, turning your data explorations into production-ready apps in no time.

DSC Collide 2025

Plotly is at DSC Collide 2025 in Atlanta, GA, where Fortune 500 data and AI leaders came together for two days of insights and networking. Visit our booth at #109 today and tomorrow (Oct 1) to see how Dash Enterprise and Plotly Studio help teams transform data into interactive apps that drive business value faster.

🤩 Upcoming Events

Check out all of the exciting events the Plotly team is headed to! For a full list, sneak a peek at our events page.

Any App, Any Scale: The Plotly Publishing Playbook

Your data app might be brilliant, but if publishing gets messy, it won’t reach its full potential. Cloud or firewall? Quick prototype or production-grade? Internal team or external stakeholders? The choices can feel like a maze.

That’s where our next webinar comes in. We’ll walk you through our playbook of publishing decisions that make or break your strategy and show you how leading organizations are nailing it.

What you’ll learn:

When to go SaaS vs. behind-the-firewall
How Kubernetes powers secure, scalable publishing
Tips for moving from localhost to production with ease
Real-world case studies from Fortune 500 teams
Live demos of publishing workflows in action

Don’t let publishing be the roadblock to scale. Join us on October 22 and learn how to turn your data apps into enterprise-ready powerhouses.

AI Realized 2025

On November 5, the Plotly team will be in San Francisco at AI Realized! Come join us and gain strategic insights and network with peers tackling AI deployment. Learn strategies from experienced practitioners, and gather input for strategic planning.

🌱 Plotly User Story Spotlight

“𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝘄𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗵𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁.”

— Patrick Martinent, CEO/CIO, Tanalink

Closing the yield gap in tropical plantations is a major challenge, especially across thousands of hectares with limited connectivity.

Tanalink tackled this by combining IoT devices, AI models, and Dash Enterprise apps to give managers real-time visibility into harvesting, fertilizing, and compliance. The result: secure scaling across 25–30 estates, a 30% improvement in productivity attribution, and custom tools that directly support field workers and managers.

Want your Dash story featured in an upcoming spotlight? Reach out to us at marketing@plot.ly

🤝 Community Spotlight

👥 September Plotly Hangout — The September Plotly Hangout session featured David Lichacz of Hard Rock Games, who shared how he built a comprehensive Dash-powered data portal that transformed reporting and analytics across his organization. Watch the session!

➡️ Plotly Data Exploration Meet-Ups — The mission of these get-togethers is to harness the power of data visualization and AI to uncover insights and help improve the cities we love. See where we’ll be next!

📚 Resources

Catch up on blog posts and user stories, deep diving into key topics for data science teams:

👋 Thanks for reading!

Thanks for joining us for this month’s round-up. Stay tuned for more exciting updates from Plotly next month.

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