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Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

By : Elias Dabbas
Book Image

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)
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Section 1: Building a Dash App
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Section 2: Adding Functionality to Your App with Real Data
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Section 3: Taking Your App to the Next Level

Chapter 13: Next Steps

Welcome to the end of the book, and the beginning of your Dash journey! Even though we covered many topics, use cases, chart types, and interactivity features, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can build with Dash.

By now, you should be as comfortable building dashboards as you would be in creating presentations. You should be comfortable manipulating and expressing data using a variety of data visualization techniques and chart types.

But this book just sets you on the path, and there are many things to explore next, so we will cover some ideas and pointers on how to explore the topics we covered in more depth. We will also look at some aspects that weren't covered in the book that you might be interested in exploring.

The following areas will be covered in this chapter:

  • Expanding your data manipulation and preparation skills
  • Exploring more data visualization techniques
  • Exploring other Dash components
  • Creating your own...