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3.1 A beautiful graph of important data tells a story, answers questions, informs our views, and transfers knowledge. Data downloaded or emailed in a grid, file, or document is isolated. It doesn't tell a story, and requires technical skills and an investment of time to understand the data. Then you have to find a platform if you take the time to download, import, and graph data you find online.  Using Plotly, you can graph and share data. Let's suppose that a journalist, social scientist, or data scientist was interested in understanding and using  the 88,399 [datasets reported](catalog.data.gov//dataset) as available on data.gov. The questions they we  might have are: start with:  * What types of datasets resources  are available (raw, geodata, and data tools)? tools), and which resources are high-value?  * Which government agencies contribute the most datasets, and of what type?  * Which government subagencies contribute the most data to data.gov?