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Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

By : Elias Dabbas
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Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

By: Elias Dabbas

Overview of this book

Plotly's Dash framework is a life-saver for Python developers who want to develop complete data apps and interactive dashboards without JavaScript, but you'll need to have the right guide to make sure you’re getting the most of it. With the help of this book, you'll be able to explore the functionalities of Dash for visualizing data in different ways. Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash will first give you an overview of the Dash ecosystem, its main packages, and the third-party packages crucial for structuring and building different parts of your apps. You'll learn how to create a basic Dash app and add different features to it. Next, you’ll integrate controls such as dropdowns, checkboxes, sliders, date pickers, and more in the app and then link them to charts and other outputs. Depending on the data you are visualizing, you'll also add several types of charts, including scatter plots, line plots, bar charts, histograms, and maps, as well as explore the options available for customizing them. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to create and deploy an interactive dashboard, handle complexities and code refactoring, and understand the process of improving your application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Building a Dash App
6
Section 2: Adding Functionality to Your App with Real Data
11
Section 3: Taking Your App to the Next Level

Deploying and scaling Dash apps with Dash Enterprise

We will now explore several phases and options that go into Dash Enterprise deployment.

Initializing the app

Once you have a contract and your setup is ready, you can go to your Application Manager page to initialize your app. This can be done by clicking the Initialize App button, which will prompt you to name your app. The app name will determine the URL of your application, which will be accessible on the URL https://<your-dash-enterprise-domain>/<app-name> as you can see in Figure 12.9:

Figure 12.10 – Initializing your app on Dash Enterprise


Figure 12.10 – Initializing your app on Dash Enterprise

Building your application (optional)

If you have your application already written, you can skip to the following phase. Otherwise, you can use the Dash Enterprise Development Workspaces tool to build your application.

It also contains an isolated production-like environment that allows you to author an app from creation...