In this newsletter:

• Upcoming Webinar — Meet Plotly Cloud: Dash Apps as a Team Sport
• The New Plotly Studio: AI-first business intelligence and analytics
• Meet the New Plotly Studio
• Plotly x IBCS App Challenge
• New resources to learn data viz & Plotly
• Resources

☁️ Meet Plotly Cloud: Dash Apps as a Team Sport

You’ve analyzed the data. Maybe run a few models. The insights are solid, your stakeholders are impressed, and now comes the question: how do we actually turn this into something everyone can benefit from?

Join us February 10 @ 11am EST for a webinar that shows you a better way: Plotly Cloud, our platform that transforms ad-hoc analysis into collaborative analytics workflows so your team can focus on finding insights, not wrestling with distribution.

Featuring a special guest: Dan Fink, VP of Engineering at BuildingLogiX, is joining us to share how his team shifted from siloed work to seamless collaboration in 5 months using Plotly Cloud. Real wins, real challenges, real lessons learned. Nathan Drezner, Plotly’s Technical Product Manager, will demo team workspaces, stakeholder collaboration features, and deployment workflows that eliminate the “how do we share this?” bottleneck.

If you’re working with Dash, then you don’t want to miss this one — save your spot!

🤖 The New Plotly Studio: AI-first business intelligence and analytics

Remember when data work was about discovery, not maintenance? When you spent your days uncovering patterns instead of troubleshooting broken pipelines and tweaking hex codes?

Our January 27 session revealed a different approach. We walked through Plotly Studio, our AI-powered analytics platform designed to handle the tedious parts so you can focus on what matters: the insights themselves.

In the recording, you’ll see real-time demonstrations of analytics that update automatically, dashboards that adapt to your needs with simple requests, and interactive reports stakeholders can explore independently. Watch on-demand now!

📊 Meet the New Plotly Studio

Business intelligence is fundamentally changing. The old playbook — static dashboards, rigid templates, weeks of development time — doesn’t match what’s possible today. Data analytics teams need always-on insights that support timely action, not just historical data reports and charts that take months to customize.

The latest version of Plotly Studio reflects this shift. It generates interactive, production-grade analytics apps and dashboards from your data in under a minute, dynamically connecting to any Python-accessible data source and beyond. AI writes clean Python code to build your dashboards, which you can then refine with natural language or edit directly. When you’re ready, publish to Plotly Cloud or Dash Enterprise with one click.

Plotly Studio handles the full cycle: data connection, exploration, dashboard creation, collaboration, and production deployment, all while maintaining the trust and auditability that code-based analytics provide.

As Chris Parmer, our CPO and Co-Founder, puts it: “BI vendors are raising prices while bolting on AI features that don’t match what’s possible now. That gap is only widening. We’ve built Plotly Studio for the new reality of BI and analytics.”

Read the full announcement and dive deeper into what’s new.

💼 Plotly x IBCS App Challenge

We’re kicking off 2026 with a new app challenge: create reusable prompt templates for IBCS chart types in Plotly Studio.

The International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) provide a universal framework for clear, consistent business charts, and we aim to harness Plotly Studio’s power to make these standards accessible to everyone. Your mission is to choose an IBCS chart from their official examples, recreate it in Plotly Studio with a similar dataset, and craft a comprehensive prompt that others can reuse. Submit your chosen chart type, an image of your Plotly Studio creation, and your complete prompt by end of day February 15, 2026 for a chance to win a cash prize

🤩 New resources to learn data viz & Plotly

Plotly Studio Benchmarks

Most AI data tools look impressive in demos. But what happens when you throw messy, real-world datasets at them?

We wanted to know the answer, so we built a benchmarking system to evaluate AI. Every day, Plotly Studio automatically generates dashboards from 111 diverse datasets — finance, healthcare, climate, sports, supply chain, and more — spanning simple CSVs to complex 100k-row files.

The result? A 99.1% success rate with a median generation time of 98 seconds. Browse our complete benchmark gallery to see exactly how Plotly Studio handles hundreds of real use cases. Every example includes the generated dashboard, the underlying dataset, and the Python code that powers it, so you can see precisely what you’re getting.

New Examples Page

We’ve redesigned our examples page with a cleaner look and easier navigation. Browse real-world data apps from organizations like S&P Global, Berkeley Materials Project, and the Kansas City Chiefs, filtered by industry or analytics use cases.

See what’s possible with Plotly across finance, healthcare, sports, machine learning, geospatial analysis, and more. Plus, check out our new Plotly Studio section for AI-powered apps built in under a minute.

Plotly University

We’re building Plotly University to teach data visualization and dashboard development best practices to the global community.

We’re creating learning resources across three categories: Plotly Studio tutorials, data visualization best practices, and industry-specific dashboard building.

Last Friday, our community kicked off this initiative by brainstorming and drafting initial content, including:

• How to build an NBA dashboard
• Migration-based dashboard analysis
• Market crash analysis
• Connecting DuckDB to Plotly
• Publishing Python data apps to the web

We’re looking for contributors to help shape Plotly University. This is a great opportunity to join the Plotly community, become a Plotly Ambassador, gain blog-writing experience, and enhance your dashboard skills. Interested? Email adam@plotly.com

📚 Resources

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

• AI-Native Analytics Built for Production
• 9 Advanced Data Science Techniques with One Financial Dataset
• Plotly Achieves “Triple Crown” ISO Certification for Security, Privacy, and AI Governance
• Plotly Studio Data Sources: Connect to Anything
• Plotly Challenges Legacy BI Tools with the New AI-Powered Plotly Studio

👋 Thanks for reading!

Thanks for joining us for this month’s round-up. Stay tuned for more exciting updates from Plotly next month. Looking forward to a great 2026 with everyone!

Plotly Newsletter, January 2026 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this newsletter:

• New from Plotly
• Rewind and Relive: Top Webinars of 2025
• 2025 Conference & Events Highlights
• Together with the Plotly Community
• New Blogs & Resources
• A Message from Plotly (with love!)

🤖 New from Plotly

Meet Plotly Studio and Cloud

Plotly Studio and Plotly Cloud, officially launched in September, give data teams a complete platform to build and share interactive analytics. With AI-assisted tools, users can automatically generate stunning, interactive dashboards and data apps in minutes, fully backed by production-grade Python code.

Connect to anything with Data Sources in Plotly Studio

Plotly Studio connects to virtually any data source that is reachable by Python, making it easy to detect patterns and uncover hidden insights across domains. By generating data connections dynamically, Plotly Studio writes the code necessary to authenticate, retrieve, and transform your data for visualization. It also creates credential forms for you and stores secrets securely without exposing them to the LLM. Try it out for free today!

Plotly achieves “triple crown” ISO certification for security, privacy, and AI governance

We recently achieved a major milestone: Plotly has been awarded certification status for ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 27701 (Privacy), and ISO 42001 (Artificial Intelligence). We’re pleased to be one of the first 100 organizations worldwide to hold this specific combination of standards. Learn more.

📺 Rewind and Relive: Top Webinars of the Year

In 2025, we hosted and were a part of 15 webinars this year — each one loaded with insights, deep dives, and expert perspectives. Settle in, grab some popcorn, and catch up on the highlights.

• Broadband Insights’ CEO Patrick Hutto shared how their custom data analytics platform, powered by Plotly Dash Enterprise, led to 50% faster customer installation times and significant operational cost reductions.
• We marked the debut of Plotly Studio and a change into a new, fluid workflow called ‘vibe analysis’ with expert guest speakers Michael Schrage and Brian Julius.
• Data teams consistently hit the same wall: strong analyses and apps slowed by publishing complexity. We walked through how a modern publishing strategy resolves those issues from start to finish.
• We closed off the year with exciting new updates for Plotly Studio: data connectivity, UX and workflow, working with specifications, chart exploration, and in-app reference docs.

🚀 2025 Conference and Event Highlights

In 2025, the Plotly team was packed with new places to be and old sights to see, with 9 in-person conferences in San Francisco, London, Atlanta, and New York City! If you’re ever curious about where the Plotly team has been or where we’re headed next, keep an eye on our events page.

• Plotly sponsored Gartner’s Data & Analytics Summit in London for the first time, and shared teams are building powerful, interactive data apps with Plotly AI in record time.
• We returned to the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) East in Boston and had great conversations about Dash Enterprise with data analytics leaders
• Plotly team members Mingo, Carolina, and Ian attended Data Science Connect’s Collide, where a clear theme emerged: teams want faster ways to explore their data.
• In San Francisco, the Moscone halls were full again as Databricks’ Data + AI Summit started.
• Chris Parmer, Plotly’s CPO and Co-Founder of Dash, presented on vibe analytics at the AI Realized Summit.
• 8 global Roadshows brought the community together for hands-on app building and the latest Plotly innovations.
• Our first Vibe-a-Thon challenged users to create fast, creative data apps with Plotly Studio’s agentic AI.
• Join the Plotly Product Labs’ January 13 session to connect directly with the product team and help shape Plotly’s future.

🤩 Together with the Plotly Community

This year has been incredibly rewarding and fun for the Plotly Community!

• Thank you to the global Plotly community for joining monthly virtual meetups as well as over 30 in-person meetups in NYC, Raleigh, Dallas, Montreal, Toronto, and London. We are looking to expand our meetup footprint to Paris, Berlin, and South America, so if you are interested in joining us in person, please reach out to Plotly’s Community Manager, Adam Schroeder, at adam@plotly.com
• We are honored to have such a dedicated community of data viz experts who support each other in learning Plotly and building data apps. To see real-life examples of some of the apps built this year, check out the Plotly Examples page.
• In addition to the Examples Page, we are proud of all the work shared at the Figure Friday submissions this year. Thank you to all the community members for participating and sharing your knowledge and expertise with others.

2026 will be a year with even more initiatives and community participation opportunities around Plotly, Dash, and Plotly Studio. We have our first meet-up scheduled in Dallas for January 14!

If you would like to be part of these initiatives, learn more about them, or join our ongoing community gatherings, please email Plotly’s Community Manager, Adam Schroeder, at adam@plotly.com.

📚 Fresh off the Press: New Blogs & Resources!

State of Vibe Analytics

Curious about how AI is reshaping analytics? In our latest report, we surveyed hundreds of developers, data scientists, and BI professionals to explore how AI-assisted code generation is transforming data visualization and analysis. Join the waitlist for the report and watch our on-demand webinar where we covered our latest findings.

Plotly Publishing Playbook

You’ve built a high-value app that shares insights from your data, but keeping it on your laptop limits its impact. The Plotly Publishing Playbook shows how to share your work with colleagues, stakeholders, or customers while preserving interactivity and real-time exploration. This guide covers the steps and strategy to get your data analysis in front of the right audience, in the right formats.

Need some holiday reading? Catch up on our best blogs of the year:

• Plotly Studio Data Sources: Connect to Anything
• Create Advanced Data Analysis and Computational Tools With Explore Mode
• 9 Advanced Data Science Techniques with One Financial Dataset
• Chasing Nines on AI Reliability Benchmarks
• What Vibe Coding Gets Wrong (and Why Vibe Analytics is Better)

♥️ A Message from Plotly (with love!)

2025 was a year defined by execution, driven by teams that take ownership, think creatively, and move ideas forward with focus and consistency. Across the organization, we translated ambitious ideas into products used around the world, with AI playing a key role in how we build and deliver.

Most notably, we launched two new products, Plotly Studio and Plotly Cloud, in a single year, demonstrating our ability to move quickly, stay focused, and deliver at a high technical bar.

Our approach remains intentionally scrappy and pragmatic: working smart with the resources we have, balancing structure with flexibility, and moving quickly when it matters. At the same time, we continue to invest in AI-driven workflows across both product development and daily operations, enabling faster iteration and more effective solutions for our customers. Read more about our approach in our blog post, How Plotly is Leading with AI, and Keeping People at the Center.

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re proud of a year that reflected not just what we built, but how we built it. With strong momentum and a culture rooted in creativity, curiosity, and execution, we’re excited to carry this energy into 2026.

🎁 Thanks for reading our holiday newsletter!

2025 has been an incredible year! We’ve loved every opportunity to share resources, learn, and grow alongside our customers, community, and the entire Plotly team. As we close out the year, we’re already looking forward to the exciting possibilities 2026 will bring.

From all of us at Plotly, happy holidays and best wishes for a bright new year!

Plotly Newsletter, December 2025 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this edition of People in Focus, we’re excited to introduce Justen Walker, our new Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud team. He shares his early experiences, what surprised him most, and how he sees Plotly’s core values — Creativity, Scrappiness, Innovation, Curiosity, Honesty, and Execution — come to life.

What first drew you to Plotly, and what did you hope to find here?

I was drawn to an opportunity to work with a small team and make a large impact. Plotly empowers not only data scientists, developers, and highly technical people; but *anyone* who has data they care about and wish to transform into something that tells a story and can help make decisions. I hoped to find a place where I can apply my experience with cloud infrastructure over the past decade and make a meaningful impact in days, not weeks or months. I believe that is what I found.

When you think back to your first few weeks, what stands out most: a moment, a feeling, or a realization?

The immediate trust placed in me. Rather than being tasked with reading documentation or onboarding tasks for weeks, I was solving real problems.

By the end of my first week, I was presenting technical proposals to the team and writing design documentation for my first project. The team gave me trust and ownership from day one, which was exhilarating.

What was your very first project at Plotly, and which company value do you think it best represents?

My first major project was building secrets management infrastructure — the secure foundation that allows applications to safely connect to databases and external services. This project embodies innovation and being scrappy while working together.

Innovation because we were developing a new capability that could be applicable to different kinds of customers, not just cloud users. We evaluated modern alternatives, designed for future scale and multi-tenancy, and thought carefully about how this infrastructure would serve different deployment models.

Scrappy because we had to move fast and deliver value early. I had done a similar project at a previous company and we didn’t really deliver value until about a year later; At Plotly, we pushed to make this available to Plotly Studio in an accelerated timeline.

Learn more about Plotly’s values: plotly.com/about-us.

How did your first project challenge you to be Creative, to think beyond the obvious, or combine imagination with technical skill?

Secrets management has a classic “chicken and egg” problem: you need secrets to be secure before you can use them, but you need the system running to secure them. I designed a solution that could bootstrap itself by automatically initializing the secure vault, and applying configuration. All of this is done without human intervention, and is now a common part of every environment.

In what ways did you need to be “Scrappy”, working smart, adapting fast, or finding a creative solution with limited time or resources?

Scrappy is not just about working with limited resources, but also reading the situation and focusing on what delivers the most value right now, not just completing what you started. I was deep into one project when a more urgent infrastructure change became critical. I parked what I was working on, executed the removal quickly and safely, and then resumed my original work.

How have you experienced “Innovation” firsthand at Plotly, whether through AI integration, team experimentation, or problem-solving?

I’ve both contributed to and witnessed innovation here. One example: I saw an opportunity to use AI to improve our deployment process. Before rolling changes to production, the system now automatically summarizes what’s about to deploy in plain language, making it easier for everyone to understand the impact before approving. This wasn’t requested; I saw a problem (lack of visibility) and built a solution using modern AI capabilities.

Another example: One of my teammates saw an opportunity to optimize some of our cloud costs. He created a design doc, we iterated on the solution, and he was able to deploy this into production in a matter of weeks; channeling our spend towards efforts that give our customers the ability to deploy more applications.

The team culture supports this kind of experimentation. We’re encouraged to prototype ideas, gather feedback, and iterate.

How has your “Curiosity” helped you learn or connect more deeply with your team or the product?

My curiosity drove me to understand the entire system, not just my immediate work. Early on, I sought out conversations with engineers across teams in order to understand how our enterprise product works, how different teams think about similar problems, and where the real pain points are. Each conversation was driven by genuine curiosity about how others think and work, which built relationships and made me more effective.

I also dove into problems outside my immediate scope. When I noticed something wasn’t working as expected, I’d dig in even if it wasn’t my assigned task. That curiosity often led to improvements that benefited the whole team.

What does “Honesty” look like to you in the way Plotly teams communicate or make decisions?

Honesty shows up in how we assess ourselves. Early in my time here, the team openly acknowledged that parts of the stack needed investment and that knowledge of certain parts of our code-base wasn’t as distributed equally. That kind of honest self-assessment is how teams get better.

It also shows up in code reviews and technical discussions. Feedback is direct and focused on making the work better, not on politics or ego. When things break in production, the communication is about resolution, not blame. That mutual honesty makes collaboration work.

Where have you seen “Execution” come to life, moving ideas into action quickly but thoughtfully?

Ideas don’t languish in planning here. The pattern I’ve experienced: write a design document, gather feedback, build a proof of concept, iterate, ship. All within weeks, not months.

One rather large project went from initial proposal to production deployment in about six weeks, with proper validation and team review along the way: quick, but thoughtful.

When priorities shift, the team can pivot fast without losing momentum.

What’s one thing you’ve learned about yourself since joining Plotly?

I’ve learned that I naturally think about how to make the team more effective, not just complete my own tasks. Creating debugging tools, implementing workflow improvements, writing documentation that saves others time. These were not pre-planned assignments. They emerged from my instinct to make everyone more capable. I want to be a force multiplier, not just an individual contributor.

How has your understanding of Plotly’s mission or culture evolved over your first 90 days?

Initially, I understood Plotly as a data visualization company. Over 90 days, I’ve come to see it as a platform company building the infrastructure that empowers people to build data applications. Everything connects: secrets management enables secure data connections, workflow systems enable reliable builds, AI integration enables Dash apps to be created in seconds instead of days.

Plotly’s mission is about removing friction so people can focus on building great data applications, not fighting programming language constructs or infrastructure concerns.

What’s a proud moment or milestone that captures what these 90 days have meant to you?

If I had to pick one milestone that captures it all, it’s this. On my first day, I was running a migration script. Today, I’m merging infrastructure improvements, implementing changes, and automating parts of our build process, removing legacy code, and responding to production incidents. The journey from “new person running a script” to “trusted owner of critical infrastructure” in such a short time is proof that when you join a team that trusts you with real ownership, you can accomplish a great deal.

These 90 days have been about building: building infrastructure, building trust, and building a foundation for what comes next.

People in Focus: Inside Justen Walker’s First 90 Days, A Reflection on Creativity, Curiosity, and… was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this newsletter:

• Upcoming Webinar: Fresh Look, Fresh Data: What’s new in Plotly Studio
• The State of Vibe Analytics
• The Plotly Publishing Playbook
• Plotly Product Labs
• Community Spotlight
• Resources

🪄 Upcoming Webinar: Fresh Look, Fresh Data: What’s new in Plotly Studio

Plotly Studio just got a major upgrade! Join us on Dec 16 at 11am ET for a detailed walkthrough of the latest features, lots of demos, plus a quick refresher on Studio’s core capabilities.

What you’ll see:

• Enterprise Data Connections: Connect to warehouses, databases, and cloud sources
• Chart Exploration: A new way to create and visualize with AI recommendations
• Workflow Improvements: Faster insights with streamlined UX, improved specs, and code sync
• In-App Docs: Reference guides exactly where you need them
• And more!

Perfect for analysts, BI teams, and data scientists who want to build AI-powered data apps, without the coding chaos. Sign up now!

✨ The State of Vibe Analytics

Ever wondered how AI is changing the way analytics gets done? In our upcoming report, we surveyed hundreds of developers, data scientists, and BI professionals to see how AI code generation has transformed data visualization and analysis — and the results are eye-opening.

Here’s what we covered:

• How data analysts have been using AI in practice
• The top tools & tech stacks in the Vibe Analytics ecosystem
• Real-world success stories and challenges
• Predictions for the next 2–5 years of analytics

Join the waitlist for the report and watch our on-demand webinar where we covered our latest findings.

📚 New! — Plotly Publishing Playbook

Your app delivers powerful insights, but gets stuck living in your laptop, not published where your stakeholders gain value from your insights.

The Plotly Publishing Playbook shows you how to share your analyses and Dash apps without losing interactivity, live data, or performance. Learn when Cloud sharing is enough, and when you need scalable infrastructure.

What’s inside:

• Publish in minutes with Plotly Cloud
• When to move to enterprise deployment
• Real examples from Berkeley Labs, UK Power Networks, and more
• Security, scaling, and cost considerations

Grab your free copy!

💻 Plotly Product Labs

We’re thrilled to invite you to our Plotly Product Labs, where your voice directly shapes the future of Plotly! On December 9 at 11am EST, connect with our passionate product and design team for an interactive hour dedicated to collaborative innovation.

What’s in store for you:

• Get instant answers to all your Plotly product questions from the experts who build them
• Share your valuable insights and help us prioritize what matters most to you; your feedback drives our roadmap
• Be among the first to influence what we build before it launches, with early access to upcoming features and designs

Come make an impact on the tools you use every day! Register here, and we’ll send you the event link.

🤝 Community Spotlight

📺 Request a Plotly Studio Presentation — If you are part of a large company, institute, or event and you would like us to offer a live demo of Plotly Studio, please use this form.

📚 Dash Club — Check out the latest edition of our Dash Club newsletter! Highlights include: the debut of Plotly Cloud, new capabilities in Plotly Studio, key Dash feature updates, and our Plotly Vibe-a-Thon winners. Read all about it!

➡️ Plotly Data Exploration Meetups — ​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. We’ll be in Dallas and Montreal in December, so come join us!

Many of the community apps presented at our meetups and hangouts are also displayed on the Plotly Examples Page. Don’t forget to check it out!

📚 Resources

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

• Chasing Nines on AI Reliability Benchmarks
• Simple, Spec-Based Development for Analytics With Plotly Studio
• Plotly Studio: Major Speed and UX Upgrade
• What’s New in Dash 3.3.0: Plotly Cloud, customizable developer tools, and more
• Create Advanced Data Analysis and Computational Tools With Explore Mode in Plotly Studio

👋 Thanks for reading!

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

Plotly Newsletter, November 2025 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Welcome to the Dash Club newsletter. Dash Club brings essays and updates to your inbox every 8 weeks.

Introducing Plotly Cloud: Drag. Drop. Publish.

We’re excited to share Plotly Cloud, the fastest, easiest way to get your Dash apps online. With just a few clicks, you can publish your existing Dash projects and share them with the world — no complex setup required. Our main goal is to get your apps on the web so you can see them in action.

If you’re using Dash 3.3.0, publishing is even easier: the new release includes a direct publish flow from DevTools. You can check out the release candidate and try it yourself here: Publish to Cloud from Dash.

We’d love for you to publish your current Dash apps, explore how Plotly Cloud compares to other hosting options you’ve used, and share your thoughts with us. Your feedback helps us make Cloud even better. Questions, ideas, or comments? Reach out — we’re listening and excited to see what you create!

There’s too much to cover in this newsletter, so check out the full story in this blog post.

Plotly Studio and Dash Highlights

Below you will find remarkable data apps built by the community and Plotly staff members with Plotly Studio and Dash.

👉 Climate Transition Pathways built by community member, Aditya Shukla, using Plotly Studio. This app allows you to compare countries and regions to understand the role of energy supply and demand.

👉 CSS Lab SNOTEL Weather Station app built by Plotly staff members, using Plotly Studio. This is a comprehensive analysis of weather and snowpack conditions from the CSS Lab SNOTEL station in California, tracking snow water equivalent, precipitation, and temperature patterns over 40+ years of data collection.

👉 Maritime Traffic app built by community member, Lucas Perrenot, using Dash. This app displays real-time maritime traffic in the area of your choice. Just wait for the map to update with the latest ships.

👉 RAST app built by community member, Dimitri Bozovic, using Dash. This app is your go-to tool for determining the intrinsic value of publicly traded Tech companies.

👉 ENSO Snow BC app built by community member, Faron Anslow, using Dash. This app explores the link between the El Niño Southern Oscillation and snow accumulation in British Columbia.

🙏 Thank you everyone for creating these apps and submitting them to the Plotly Examples Page.

See more Dash and Plotly Studio apps or share your own in the community forum’s Show and Tell tag. If you would like your app to be considered for the next edition of the Dash Club newsletter or the Dash Explore Page, please submit it by clicking the Share Your App button.

Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon Winners

After a month of creative, next-level data apps, the first Plotly Vibe-A-Thon wrapped up. Thank you to over 210 community members for participating.

And for the results 🥁…

🥇 1st place — Chief Viber — goes to Alonso for the app on OECD Pensions Explorer

🥈 2nd place — Analytics Star — goes to Tatiana for the app on Femicide in Bolivia: From News to Narrative

🥉 3rd place — Community Choice — goes to Pranav for the app on Football Post-Recovery Analytics

In addition, we had 6 Honorable Mentions — The Peregrine Prize — due to a tie between 5th and 6th place:

• Darlyn, who created Eco+
• Sagar, who created The Psychology of Banking
• Eszter, who created E-commerce Sales Analytics
• Aryan, who created Formula 1 Racing Analytics
• Talha, who created Smart and Secure Schools in India
• Deepa, who created Charting Gender Parity

Visit the Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon Project Gallery to congratulate the winners and check out all of the awesome submissions.

Version Check

• Dash Enterprise Platform 5.8 (docs)
• Dash Open Source Framework 3.2.0 (changelog)
• Dash AG Grid 32.3.2 (changelog)
• Plotly.py 6.3.1 (changelog)
• Plotly.js 3.2.0 (changelog)

Have a great rest of your week –
Nathan (@nathandrezner) & Adam (@adamschroeder)

Dash Club 20: Introducing Plotly Cloud, Plotly Studio, and Dash Highlights, Plotly Vibe-a-Thon… was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this newsletter:

• Upcoming Webinar: The State of Vibe Analytics
• Any App, Any Scale: The Plotly Publishing Playbook
• October Events Recap
• Upcoming Events
• Community Spotlight
• Resources

✨ The State of Vibe Analytics

Curious how AI is reshaping analytics workflows? We surveyed hundreds of developers, data scientists, and BI pros to uncover how AI code generation is transforming data visualization and analysis — and the insights are fascinating.

Join us to learn:

• How data analysts are using AI today
• Top tools & tech stacks in the Vibe Analytics ecosystem
• Real-world success stories and challenges
• Predictions for the next 2–5 years of analytics

Attendees will get the full report and an interactive Dash app built in Plotly Studio to explore the data themselves. Register now!

🚢 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?

In our latest webinar, we explored a strategic framework for publishing data applications at any scale. Learn how leading organizations tackled real-world challenges, from rapid external collaboration to mission-critical internal apps.

Watch the webinar on demand now!

🎃 October Events Recap

“You’ve heard of vibe coding, well, this is vibe analytics!”

Learn how Plotly Studio empowers everyone, from executives to researchers, to uncover patterns, tell data stories, and drive impact faster than ever. Welcome to analytics at the speed of thought. Watch the replay.

DSC Collide 2025

Plotly was at DSC Collide 2025 in Atlanta, GA, where Fortune 500 data and AI leaders came together for two days of insights and networking. We showcased 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.

AI Realized 2025

On November 5, Plotly’s CPO Chris Parmer will be presenting 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.

🤝 Community Spotlight

👾 Awards Ceremony: Plotly Analytics Vibe-A-Thon — After a month of creative, next-level data apps, the first Plotly Vibe-A-Thon wrapped up! Check out the community’s standout projects: stunning visuals, interactive apps, and clever analytics that push what’s possible with Plotly Studio. Catch the awards ceremony!

👥 October Plotly Hangout — The October Plotly Hangout session featured Thomas Weber, Research Fellow at EMBL’s Data Science Center and member of the ARISE program. He showcased Depictio, a platform that lets researchers create and share interactive Dash dashboards and web apps directly from bioinformatics pipeline outputs. Watch the session!

➡️ Plotly Data Exploration Meetups — ​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!

Many of the community apps presented at our meetups and hangouts are also displayed on the Plotly Examples Page. Don’t forget to check it out!

📚 Resources

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

• Building Data Applications the Modern Way
• What’s new, Plotly Studio? Project Export, Speed, and Reliability
• What I Learned Integrating Designers Wielding LLMs into Our Codebase

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

Plotly Newsletter, October 2025 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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:

• How Plotly Designers Build Beyond Figma Mockups With AI
• What Vibe Coding Gets Wrong (and Why Vibe Analytics is Better)
• Modern, Shareable AI Analytics with Plotly Studio and Cloud
• Join the Vibe Analytics Revolution — Plotly Studio and Cloud Are GA
• Tanalink Closes the Yield Gap in Tropical Plantations with AI Models and IoT
• Code to Crowd in Seconds: Modernizing How Dash Apps Get Published
• Meet Sami El Feki, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Plotly

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

Plotly Newsletter, September 2025 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

What do you do at Plotly?

For the past six months, I’ve been part of the Plotly Cloud team working on the infrastructure that runs plotly.com/cloud. Before that I was a DevOps engineer in the IT team helping around with Dash Enterprise infrastructure. I initially joined Plotly a little over a year ago as a QA Engineer contractor in the Plotly Studio team.

What three words describe your Plotly experience?

Compassionate. Pragmatic. Result-oriented.

What’s your favorite work-from-home snack or beverage?

Coffee! For better or for worse.

If you were to describe Plotly as a color or a flavor, what would it be and why?

Probably the color magenta because that’s the most interesting color in the Plotly logo. I recently learned that magenta doesn’t actually exist in the visible light spectrum. It’s a perception created by the brain when both red and blue light receptors in the eye are stimulated, but not the green ones.

What skill are you most proud of developing?

Prior to joining Plotly my background was pure backend development with minimal cloud infrastructure experience. I wanted to pivot my career into Platform/DevOps engineering and had the privilege of working under a former manager at Plotly, who was willing to take a chance on me not having any prior DevOps experience. Taking the General Availability launch of Plotly Cloud as a measure of success, I’d say I’m pretty happy with what I’ve learned in the past year about building production-ready infrastructure.

What’s your favorite part about working at Plotly?

The Montréal office, with its people and pets. I graduated during the pandemic and 100% remote work has been the norm for me. Even though Plotly remains fully remote we have an office where a small group of us willingly show up most days of the week.

How has Plotly shaped your perspective on remote work or data visualization?

I’m currently on-call as the first responder for production incidents during the Plotly Studio and Cloud GA launch. One core part of my job is looking for anomalies in our production observability dashboard. Well visualized-data is definitely something I’ve taken for granted until now! I’m eager to experiment with dumping all our production observability data into a Plotly Studio project and seeing what comes out.

Most memorable team activity?

A pub trivia night with a few colleagues from Plotly back when I was based in Vancouver. I think we came in second place. I’ve kept in touch with a few folks from that night and since then consider them friends outside of work.

Favorite way to connect with the team remotely?

I like the company-wide random 1:1s that get auto-scheduled once a month. I’ve had a few interesting conversations that went way past the scheduled meeting time with people I would otherwise never have spoken to.

What’s your favorite hobby?

I’ve cycled through a bunch in the past few years like rock climbing and drumming. Reading has turned out to be the most enjoyable and maintainable. This past summer I joined a reading group for Homer’s Odyssey and it was out of this world. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been that deeply invested in a hobby.

Proudest accomplishments at Plotly?

Seeing Plotly Cloud and Studio finally go live for GA, putting a ribbon on a year’s worth of engineering work. This is my first time working with a team on a major SaaS product from scratch and learning what works — or more frequently, what doesn’t — has been invaluable for my career growth.

What are you most excited about for the future of Plotly or your team?

The work my team does is directly influenced by our Product team’s interpretation of the needs of Plotly Studio and Cloud’s user base. I’m eager to find out how these tools get used in the wild since it directly influences my own work day-to-day.

How do you stay creative or innovative in your role?

I like positioning myself as close as my role allows me to the critical path of a company’s success. Regular interactions with people who are invested in the outcome of my work is what drives me to do my best.

What advice would you give to someone aspiring to work in Engineering at Plotly?

Find out what people actually care about. Learn how to be okay with uncertainty. Change is inevitable; learn to adapt.

Where’s your favorite place to travel?

Tunisia, it’s where I grew up before moving to Canada a decade ago. I try to visit once a year and stay in touch with my extended family.

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We call it “Vibe Analytics”.

No more barriers. No more waiting. Just instant, interactive, intelligent data experiences.

That’s also the vision behind “The Rise of Vibe Analytics”, our must-attend virtual event on September 23. Join us as industry leaders and innovators showcase how AI is reshaping the way we analyze, visualize, and act on data.

Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or just curious about where AI meets analytics, this is your first step into the practical application of AI for anyone working with data!

In this special edition, you’ll find:

• Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics
• Plotly Vibe Coder Hackathon
• Plotly Studio & Cloud Now Generally Available

📊 Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics

Data analytics is evolving beyond chatbots and drag-and-drop tools. The next wave is here, where AI fuels creativity, accelerates insights, and empowers everyone (not just specialists) to uncover deeper meaning in their data. At our upcoming event, you’ll hear from expert practitioners and thought leaders who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and analytics.

There are no better experts to discuss vibe analytics than our guests Michael Schrage and Brian Julius:

• Michael Schrage is an MIT Sloan research fellow and author of the authoritative study of vibe analytics. His research at the intersection of behavioral economics and applied AI has uncovered the emergence of generative AI-powered improvisation with models in an approach he calls “vibe analysis”. He asserts that the value from vibe analysis comes from facilitating more collaborative human-AI engagement and more quickly generating actionable insights.
• Brian Julius is a 6x LinkedIn Top Voice in data analytics and AI. As an independent consultant, he works at the leading edge of implementing AI in data analysis and shares his learnings on Data Mad Science. His work is informed by constant experimentation with the latest LLMs, agents, Power BI and Plotly Studio. He has unique and timely insights to share on the changing role of the data analyst.

You’ll also hear from Plotly CPO Chris Parmer, our Product Managers, and get the latest on community updates and programs.

With Plotly Studio and Cloud, sophisticated analysis and visualization become accessible to everyone. Better questions → richer insights → faster outcomes. Vibe with us on September 23!

👾 Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-Thon

In the lead-up to the event, Plotly will kick off the Analytics Vibe-a-Thon on September 15, inviting participants to build incredible data apps at the speed of thought using Plotly Studio’s agentic analytics capabilities. The challenge: Create fast, beautiful, insightful data apps that push the boundaries of what’s possible with natural language and data. Sign up now to be among the first to enter!

Participants will have one month of free access to the Plotly Pro Plan as well as the opportunity to receive cash prizes:

• 1st place — $1,000
• 2nd place — $500
• 3rd place — $250
• Winning apps will be featured live at a Plotly event in October

⚡ Plotly Studio Now Generally Available

The Rise of Vibe Coding event also marks the general availability of Plotly Studio and Cloud, following a blockbuster early access program involving over 6,000 registrants. If you’re ready to take the plunge, download Plotly Studio and get started for free.

Plotly Studio redefines how people create data visualizations, dashboards, and analytics apps, using natural language. Plotly Studio requires virtually zero learning curve — users need only two minutes and a dataset to be able to:

• Build data apps in under 2 minutes
• Iterate via natural language or specs
• Extend with Python or SQL when needed
• One-click publishing to Plotly Cloud

Over 6000 registrants joined the early access program, built some amazing apps and gave feedback that’s incorporated into the product. Overall feedback has been astoundingly positive, reflecting the ways Plotly AI Studio has completely revolutionized how data apps are built and hosted.

• Brian Julius, a 6X LinkedIn Top Voice and long-time Power BI pro, shared these thoughts: “Didn’t write a single line of code. Didn’t debug a single DAX measure. Just prompts.” He found Plotly Studio to be “intuitive, polished, and looks like the future of front-end AI-driven BI.”
• Eszter Kovacs “This platform is perfect for practicing and enhancing creative thinking in data analysis. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to explore new tools and get inspired in the world of data visualization!”
• Art Tennick noted, “Finish your month-end accounting reports in only 5 minutes. No formulas, no coding, no point-and-click.”
• Mateusz Pawlowski praised the tool for molecular chemistry visual storytelling, saying, “Benzene (C₆H₆) + Plotly Studio = WOW! Sometimes all it takes is one molecule, one prompt, one too — and a little bit of knowledge — to spark that ‘wait, I can actually do this?!’ feeling. It’s pure visual storytelling, no coding required.”

Whether you’re in finance, pharmaceuticals, research, education, or executive leadership, Plotly Studio allows you to see patterns and tell stories with your data nearly instantly. We invite you to try Plotly Studio for yourself. Welcome to the speed of thought!

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That’s all for this special edition! Stay tuned for more updates, tips, and stories as we continue to explore the possibilities unlocked by Plotly Studio.

Plotly Newsletter: ​​Plotly Studio GA Special Edition ✨ was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this newsletter:

• Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics
• Download Plotly Studio
• August Events Recap
• Upcoming Events
• Community Spotlight
• Resources
• Plotly Careers

🤖 Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics

The future of data analytics isn’t just chatbots or drag-and-drop dashboards; it’s AI that gives every professional data superpowers.

Join us on September 23rd at 11am EDT for the debut of Plotly Studio, the AI-powered platform that turns any dataset into interactive dashboards, visualizations, and apps in just minutes. Ask questions in plain language, explore your data like never before, and uncover insights faster than ever. Welcome to analytics at the speed of thought.

📊 Download Plotly Studio

Have you given Plotly Studio a try? Discover insights beyond your imagination with Plotly Studio! Studio revolutionizes data analysis by using AI that sees beyond human limitations, automatically generating professional applications with visualizations outside your analytical comfort zone. Built on 10+ years of Plotly expertise, it surfaces hidden patterns through domain-specific intelligence, creating 2,000 lines of production-grade Python code in just two minutes.

Try Plotly Studio Now!

🌻 August Events Recap

​​From Spreadsheet to Spectacular

Matt Brown and Chris Parmer proved that building a custom analytics app doesn’t have to take weeks; it can take under a minute. In a whirlwind tour of real apps from our Plotly Studio early access program, they showed how teams are ditching static reports for interactive tools, scaling ideas from prototype to production, and uncovering insights faster than ever.

Watch the recording!

August Plotly Hangout

This month, we featured Martin Rapavý, Product Owner of Raiffeisenbank’s internal AI Portal. Hear how Python, Plotly, and Dash transformed workflows, why the community matters, and how a passion project led to Czech national TV.

Watch the recording!

🤩 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.

Plotly Presents: The Rise of Vibe Analytics

On September 23, join visionary leaders and expert practitioners as we unveil Plotly Studio. This first-of-its-kind AI-powered platform lets anyone go from data to stunning, interactive dashboards and apps in minutes. Register now!

DSC Collide 2025

Plotly will be at DSC Collide 2025! Join Fortune 500 data and AI leaders for two days of insights and networking. Visit our booth to see how Dash Enterprise and Plotly Studio help teams transform data into interactive apps that drive business value faster.

🤝 Community Spotlight

🌍 Improved Map Accuracy in plotly.js with UN Geodata — Plotly.js v3.1.0 introduces new maps based on UN geodata, replacing Natural Earth to better represent disputed and unclaimed territories. Learn more.

➡️ Plotly Data Exploration Meet-Ups — ​The mission of these get-togethers is to harness the power of data visualization and AI to uncover insights an 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:

• Plotly Studio Early Access: The Wait(list) is Over!
• The Relationship Between Data Science and Decision Making
• Inside Plotly Studio: London Edition
• Meet Omar Elbanby, Senior Software Engineer at Plotly
• How Plotly Designers Build Beyond Figma Mockups With AI

💼 Join the Plotly team

Discover new career possibilities and join a passionate team driving the future of data visualization.

• Senior Full Stack Software Engineer — Desktop
• Staff Full Stack Software Engineer — AI
• Staff Software Engineer — Platform, Dash Enterprise

The Plotly Community also has job postings from around the world looking for Plotly and Dash skills. Check them out!

👋 Thanks for reading!

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

Plotly Newsletter, August 2025 was originally published in Plotly on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.