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

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

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It's interesting to know that the official strategy for Dash is to be "React for Python, R, and Julia." As you might know, React is a very big JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. There is a massive library of open source React components, and Dash Core Components are basically React components made available in Python. This means that if there is any functionality that is not provided by Dash that you would like to have, you might consider developing it yourself, hiring a developer to build it, or you can also sponsor its development and have the Plotly team build it. Some of the components that we worked with were sponsored by clients who wanted to have certain functionality that wasn't available. This is one way to support Dash as well. It also benefits everyone who uses open source Dash.

There are clear instructions on how to create your own Dash components, and as a Dash developer, it's good to explore...