I saw a demo in person the other day and they showed it as a graph embedded in a Washington Post article. I was most impressed by the ability to click through on the graph and browse or query the data set directly.
Well done guys. For good insights on how you could approach some UX challenges in a tool like Plotly, I highly recommend watching Bret Victor's "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations".
For the non-Plotly folks reading this, Bret's presentation is also very effective at blowing your mind in general.
Lots! We long since incorporated all of the suggestions from that post, including building a cross-language graphing API for Python, Julia, MATLAB, R, et al. We've also had time since then to raise a seed round, smooth out the UX and aesthetic, build more features like ability to comment on graphs, and build the team past the original 2.5 engineers from the time of that post (https://plot.ly/about). There are also many, many more graph types: box plots, histograms, error bars, area plots, and multiple axes and subplots coming very soon. Thanks for following and asking! Most of the HN readership likely graphs data regularly, so its been especially rewarding and fascinating to solicit feedback from y'all.
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http://vimeo.com/66085662