Plot.ly by default will tie in their social services and copy all of your data to other people's computers.
I raised this issue with the project maintainers and they stated that the wish of the parent company is for this to remain the default.
So, just a warning to enterprise developers, you have to fiddle with this to turn that off, but without a clear policy statement or a reasonable fork of the project that addresses the privacy and security issues, I've been advocating against use of Plot.ly.
I'm using plotly. Do you have specific technical info here on how to turn it off and how it's sent to them? Do you have your contact with the project maintainers.
However, looking at the output of these plot.ly charts may make me reconsider since they have good performance and the conversions appear extremely accurate (and the software is open-source). Well played.
Unfortunately, the charts hit the same issue as every other JS library in that they are nigh unusable on mobile devices for nontrivial visualizations. Which is beginning to get annoying.
Find the type of visualization I want to make on http://bl.ocks.org/. Start with that code, understand the steps taken to build it, then tweak each step / the data source until I have what I want. Works fairly well and helps you learn the library, without having to roll everything from scratch.
There's a steep learning curve but a lot of that is to do with properly grasping the conceptual underpinnings of the library. It's not a charting library, thinking of it as a charting library and it'll make little sense.
As someone who'd been making data-viz on the web for a good 8 years or so before D3 came along I had a pretty good understanding of the domain and was immediately impressed with how well D3 fitted in with the way I wanted to work. A lot of its parts were better implemented better thought out versions of ad-hoc tools I'd built up over the years.
If you're really interested in making cool visualisations so the NY Times hires you then you have to put some work in to learning the tools and understanding the theory.
I raised this issue with the project maintainers and they stated that the wish of the parent company is for this to remain the default.
So, just a warning to enterprise developers, you have to fiddle with this to turn that off, but without a clear policy statement or a reasonable fork of the project that addresses the privacy and security issues, I've been advocating against use of Plot.ly.