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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)
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

The id parameter of Dash components

As briefly mentioned in Chapter 1, Overview of the Dash Ecosystem, every Dash component has an id parameter that you can easily set in order to uniquely identify it. There is actually nothing more to this parameter than making sure that your components have unique and descriptive names.

Note

There are more advanced ways of using the id parameter, and they will be tackled in a later, more advanced chapter. However, for now, we will just focus on it being a unique identifier.

Using descriptive and explicit names for the id parameter becomes more important as the app grows in complexity. This parameter is optional when there is no interactivity, but it becomes mandatory when there is. The following example snippet shows how easy it is to set the id parameter for a basic use case:

html.Div([
    html.Div(id='empty_space'),
    html.H2(id='h2_text'),
    dcc.Slider...