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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

Summary

We first introduced the optional State argument to callback function decorators. We saw how by combining it with Input, we can defer the execution of functions until the user decides to execute them. We also ran several examples that added buttons to invoke the execution. We then created a simple app where the user's inputs to a certain component were used to dynamically populate options of another component that was "waiting." Those new options were in turn used to create another component.

Another interesting application of simple principles was allowing users to add new components having dynamic content.

We finally introduced the most powerful and flexible feature, the pattern-matching callbacks. We created an app where users are able to add as many charts as they want. Furthermore, those charts acted independently from one another, and users were empowered to customize their own dashboard.

That was a lot to cover, and we turn next to another feature...

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