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Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

You're reading from   Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash Harness the power of a fully fledged frontend web framework in Python – no JavaScript required

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568914
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Elias Dabbas Elias Dabbas
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Introducing pattern-matching callbacks

Mastering this feature, and here we are dealing with a truly new feature, will allow you to take your apps to a new level of interactivity and power. The most important feature of this capability is that it allows us to handle the interactivity of components that didn't exist before. As we've done so far, when we allowed users to create new charts by clicking a button, those components did not exist before in the app. The more interesting thing is that the callback function that handles them all is as simple as any other callback that takes values from a dropdown and produces a chart. The trick is in slightly changing the id attribute of our components.

So far, we have set the id attributes as strings, and the only requirement was that they be unique. We will now introduce a new way of creating this attribute, which is by using dictionaries. Let's first take a look at the end goal, then modify the layout, the callbacks, and finally...

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