Plotly Newsletter, March 2025

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Published Mar 31, 2025

March is here, and with it comes fresh energy and new opportunities! From in-person events to virtual gatherings, the Plotly team is in full swing. Keep reading to see what’s blooming this season!

In this newsletter:

Elevate Your Analytics
March Events Recap
Upcoming Events
Community Spotlight
Plotly User Story Spotlight
Resources
Plotly Careers

🚀 Elevate Your Analytics

Join us on April 8 at 12pm EDT for an exclusive look at Dash Enterprise 5.7, the latest evolution in AI-powered analytics. See how you can cut development time in half while building production-grade data apps with ease.

What’s New in Dash Enterprise 5.7?

AI-powered code completion for faster workflows
Explore Mode Table Editor for seamless data manipulation
Enterprise-grade security & scalability

Whether you’re automating tasks, creating interactive dashboards, or scaling data apps, this session will show you how AI can take your analytics to the next level. Register now!

🌸 March Events Recap

Build Production-Grade Data Apps Your Way

On March 18, we hosted an interactive webinar exploring how to leverage Plotly AI to create powerful, production-grade data applications. This session was designed for data scientists and developers looking for a smarter way to build sophisticated, responsive applications with less code.

We covered:

Plotly Dash Enterprise 5.6 & AI Features — We introduced the latest AI-enabled capabilities, including the chat interface in App Studio that transforms data insights into interactive Dash applications.
Building a Dynamic Data App with RAG — Clea Aumont, Manager of Professional Services, demonstrated how to integrate Plotly, Pandas, and LangChain to create a data analysis app powered by AI.
Live Q&A Session — Attendees had the opportunity to ask about best practices for integrating LLMs with Dash, optimizing AI-enhanced applications, and customizing AI components.

Missed the webinar? Watch the full recording here.

From Prompt to Production — Building Real-Time Data Applications with AI

Mingo Sanchez, Plotly Senior Sales Engineer, hosted a live demo of how #PlotlyAI propelled data app development — turning natural language prompts into production-ready, real-time data applications.

Key takeaways include:

Explore and analyze streaming data using natural language
Generate complex, real-time visualizations (time-series, maps, & more!)
Assemble interactive dashboards with filtering & cross-filtering
Instantly deploy & share AI-powered apps

Watch the recording or check out the blog with all the details!

🤩 Upcoming Events

Data Council

The Plotly team is heading to Data Council in Oakland, CA, from April 22–24! This premier event brings together top data and AI experts to share insights, architectures, and best practices. We’re thrilled to connect with industry leaders and explore real-world solutions from hands-on data & AI practitioners.

🤝 Community Spotlight

➡️ Plotly x OFTW App Challenge: We’re teaming up with One For The World (OFTW) to build a data app that uncovers key financial insights and supports the fight against extreme poverty. Use OFTW’s metrics wishlist — or go beyond — to analyze pledges and payments from 2014 to today. Bonus points for integrating LLMs! Submit your visualization by April 13 for a chance to win a cash prize.

➡️ Plotly NYC Meet-Up — Join Plotly Community Manager, Adam Schroeder, and NYC data enthusiasts where you’ll connect with fellow professionals while building Plotly graphs and data apps. After a quick round of introductions, we’ll split into small groups to work with this month’s dataset. Plus, enjoy some pizza and soda while you code and collaborate! RSVP to join us on April 2nd at 6PM EDT.

🔦 Plotly User Story Spotlight

“If I were to not use Dash Enterprise anymore, I would probably just not run the analytics platform. Dash allows us to do everything I want to do; it’s really customizable and extendable.” — Patrick Hutto, Founder, Broadband Insights

Read the story of how Broadband Insights uses Dash Enterprise to build a telecom analytics platform, complete with an AI chatbot for smart insights. If you’d like your Dash story to be featured in an upcoming spotlight, reach out to us at marketing@plot.ly.

📚 Resources

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

💼 Join the Plotly team

A fresh year brings exciting opportunities! See the following open roles:

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.