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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568914

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Dash

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Elias Dabbas

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Building a Dash App

2. Chapter 1: Overview of the Dash Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring the Structure of a Dash App

4. Chapter 3: Working with Plotly's Figure Objects

5. Chapter 4: Data Manipulation and Preparation, Paving the Way to Plotly Express

6. Section 2: Adding Functionality to Your App with Real Data

7. Chapter 5: Interactively Comparing Values with Bar Charts and Dropdown Menus

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Variables with Scatter Plots and Filtering Subsets with Sliders

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Map Plots and Enriching Your Dashboards with Markdown

10. Chapter 8: Calculating the Frequency of Your Data with Histograms and Building Interactive Tables

11. Section 3: Taking Your App to the Next Level

12. Chapter 9: Letting Your Data Speak for Itself with Machine Learning

13. Chapter 10: Turbo-charge Your Apps with Advanced Callbacks

14. Chapter 11: URLs and Multi-Page Apps

15. Chapter 12: Deploying Your App

16. Chapter 13: Next Steps

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

We now need a Linux server connected to the internet, the data files, and our app's code. We will be installing Gunicorn (Green Unicorn, the WSGI) and nginx (the web server), as well as our app's Python packages as dependencies. We will install Dash and its main packages, Dash Bootstrap Components, pandas, and sklearn. An account on a source code management system such as Git will be needed, and we will be using GitHub as an example for this chapter.

Our development workflow so far has been to test certain functionality on JupyterLab and run it, and once it is working fine, we incorporate it to our app. This development workflow will not change. We will simply add a few steps and components for deployment after making our changes. So, let's start by establishing the workflow that we will be working with.