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At [Plotly](Plot.ly), we are excited about the collaboration that Authorea can power. Plotly is about making data analysis and visualization collaborative; Authorea is about making publication collaborative. Plotly and Authorea together can change the way you collaborate on your data analysis, visualization, and publication.   We need a collaborative resource for analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data. As of January 9, 2014, Wikipedia [reports having 4,420,275 articles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics). GitHub recently [announced having 10 million public repositories](https://github.com/blog/1724-10-million-repositories). Data.gove has a reported 88,399 [ datasets](catalog.data.gov//dataset).  What Wikipedia and GitHub do for content and code, Plotly aims to do for data and graphs. And Authorea can be the platform where such data data, scripts, graphs,  and graphs articles  are published, written together,  read, and disseminated. published.  ## Plotly solves three problems: