{"id":2709,"date":"2014-05-28T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2017-05-01T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:06:44","slug":"plotly-plots-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2014\/05\/28\/plotly-plots-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Plotly Plots MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick post to tell you about a nifty service called Plotly<\/a>. The basic idea is that you can create nice-looking interactive plots right in your web browser. You can generate the plots using a variety of different APIs and programming languages<\/a>, one of which is MATLAB.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick example to show you how it works. Let’s suppose you have some data. Say, the per capita consumption of margarine in the US (in pounds). Mmmm. Margarine.<\/p>\n

yrs = 2000:2009;
\nmargarineConsumption = [8.2 7 6.5 5.3 5.2 4 4.6 4.5 4.2 3.7];
\nplot(yrs,margarineConsumption)<\/code><\/p>\n

\"margarine\"<\/p>\n

As soon as you see the margarine data, you think to yourself “Wait a second! Where have I seen that trend before?” A moment of reflection, and suddenly it hits you: Maine divorce rates! That margarine plot is a dead ringer for divorce rates in Maine. Let’s do a plotyy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

maineDivorceRate = [5 4.7 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.1];
\nplotyy(yrs,margarineConsumption,yrs,maineDivorceRate)<\/code><\/p>\n

\"plotyy\"<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the fit is remarkable*. Now let’s say we want to share our plot as an interactive web page. After adding the Plotly API code to your path, just type<\/p>\n

fig2plotly<\/code><\/p>\n

and you get a link to a web page like this:<\/p>\n

\"plotly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cool! Follow the link<\/a> to try out the interaction.<\/p>\n

* The remarkable margarine-divorce correlation<\/a> was unearthed by Tyler Vigen on his fascinating Spurious Correlations<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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