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For Scientists and Research Professionals
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For Designers
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For Scientists and Research Professionals
Do you wish you spent more time on your core data analysis rather than learning to adjust figure margins in software X?
We want to make it easy for you to make professional-looking publication and print quality graphs and charts. If you need good data visuals, your choice now is either to learn a programming language like R, Python or Matlab or to use one of the many graphical interface software such as Sigma Plot, SPSS, Igor or Mathematica. Some of you also use Photoshop.
While these are all very powerful software, using them takes you away from your core research. Even if you are a biologist, chemist or sociologist, you have to turn into a computer scientist! And a graphic designer. Instead of spending your time analysing your data, you spend hours trying to learn obscure coding syntax or formatting your data to suit the program's limitations. Often, it is hard to find the time to do this at all. So, you have to throw together something quickly in Excel or SPSS, which results in turning all your hard work into a few not-so-pretty graphs. It is hard for scientists to admit, but presentation does matter. Even a great mathematician like Richard Hamming spent half of his time polishing his results and presentation. Here's a quote from his famous talk You and Your Research :
"I believed, in my early days, that you should spend at least as much time in the polish and presentation as you did in the original research. Now at least 50% of the time must go for the presentation. It's a big, big number."We want you to spend less than 10% of your time on the presentation part and still be stellar. Here's how:
Quickly make statistically robust graphs: histograms, scatterplots, heatmaps, density plots, boxplots, polar plots and lots more. Use one of our ready-made templates for a clean clutter-free look. Instantly create and download PDFs of your graphs; great for presentations and group meetings. Share your graphs with your colleagues, students and supervisors online. Access your files from anywhere. It's all web-based. Get a head start on writing your papers and reports. Collaborate and get feedback on your projects from start to finish. Import your data straight in from your existing files. We support CSV, Text, Excel, SPSS, Stata and SAS formats. If yours is not on the list, get in touch with us and we'll add it.If you are like us and do like to get your hands dirty, then look out for the upcoming technical articles section of our blog. We will be writing detailed articles on the art of making graphs with R, Python and other tools. You may learn some useful things, or perhaps you can teach us a thing or two. Come join the discussion.
For Students
We love students. We were students ourselves not long ago (and in some sense still are). Whether you are working on your undergraduate assignments or your graduate thesis, we want to help you save time and be on top of your class by providing a data visualisation tool that just works.
Use, save and re-use graph templates for your assignments.
We get the little details like margins, axis tick marks, labels, legends and layouts right so that you can spend more time analysing your data.
Never make the same graph twice. You can save your graphs as templates and apply them to a batch of data files at once.
If you are interested in learning R, we often write technical articles about how to use R for making graps on our blog.
For Marketing and Sales Professionals
As a marketeer, you very well know that pictures speak louder than words. Information and data is all the rage now, but no one wants to read a boring table of numbers. If you want your marketing message to be clear and stand out from the crowd, you might want to check out what we have to offer you:
Use striking visualisations of sales projections, revenue trends and market shares that tell a story.
Impress your clients with compelling graphics. Beat your competition by avoiding the default Excel look.
Make print quality material for your brochures and websites in minutes.
We want to hear from you. We want to know how we can help you be remarkable. Do you wish we did golden goose pie charts and snake-skinned trendlines? Just shout out to us and we will do it. When it comes to marketing, we trust that you know best.
For Designers
We are in awe of designers. You guys make the ordinary look beautiful. We know because we have the privilege of working with Sir Clark, who designed our gorgeous website. You could benefit from us in many ways:
Combine your design skills with our software specifically built for data visualisation. Add a faster and cheaper alternative to Photoshop to your skillset.
Add slick charts to your clients' brochures and websites.
Create high resolution visuals as PDFs and PostScript files for post editing or download images in a format of your choice: PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF or SVG.
Make print quality infographics with just a few clicks.
Choose from a wide range of chart templates.
Earn cash with the Pretty Graph Designer Programme
We believe this world can do with more than the five Excel graph templates out there. You can help us fulfill our grand vision by joining our Pretty Graph Designer Programme. Create your own shiny new graph templates and put them up for sale in our Templates Gallery. Every time someone buys a template, you get a share of the money. Subscribe to our blog RSS feed or write to us at mail@prettygraph.com and we will get in touch when the Programme goes live.
For Bloggers
If you are serious about blogging, we know what you are thinking of. Traffic. It's a tough one. If you don't have it, you are working hard to build some. If you have it, then you are trying hard to earn money off it.
Depending on your blog profile, we can help you in a few different ways:
Write better posts with data-rich infographics and pull more readers. Throw in your data, get a high quality PNG to embed right into your posts. Not all of us can be Nathan Yau, but at least we can learn from him. Increase your ebook sales with print quality PDF data charts. Impress more advertisers with pretty pictures and presentations of your growing traffic. Email your visualisations instantly straight to your subscribers. Share and access your graphs from anywhere; it's completely web-based. Just log on to prettygraph.com.
If you would like to be featured on our blog, tell us how and why you use graphs on your blog. We'd love to send some traffic your way.
For Software Developers
We are looking forward to build our API so that you can use Pretty Graph to power your dashboards, widgets and analytics panels. We want you to participate from the start so that we know exactly what your needs and pain points are. Please write to us with your thoughts at mail@prettygraph.com or leave a comment on our blog.
For those of you inclined to look under the hood, join the technical discussions on our blog. We'd love to read about your latest hacks and ventures, so don't forget to leave a link to your fine blog or web application.