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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

Technical requirements

We will not be doing any coding or deployment, so there won't be any technical requirements for this chapter.

You can learn new things and explore them generally from two directions: the top-down approach, where you want to do something, or are required to do something, and the bottom-up approach, where you start with the tools, and you want to explore the possibilities and what you can do with them:

  • Top-down: Because of a certain requirement or constraint, often you will be required to do something – make something faster, better, or easier, for example. In order to solve these problems, or satisfy some requirement, you are required to learn something new. The value of this approach is mainly its practicality. You know what is useful and what is required, and this helps focus your mind and energy on the solution that you want, which is focused on solving a practical problem. At the same time, if you only focus on practical problems, you...