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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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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

Restructuring your app to cater to multiple layouts

At this stage, we haven't moved from the basic structure that we discussed in Chapter 1, Overview of the Dash Ecosystem, and as a reminder, Figure 11.3 shows a simplified representation of the current structure:

Figure 11.3 – The structure of a Dash app

Figure 11.3 – The structure of a Dash app

Everything will remain the same, with the exception of the layout part. Right now, we only have one layout attribute, and everything was added to the main div. We used tabs to efficiently utilize space in some cases, and from Dash Bootstrap Components we used the Row and Col components to flexibly manage how components are displayed. To create the new layout structure, we need to create one main layout, which will serve as the skeleton of our app. In this layout, we will have an empty div, which will get populated with the appropriate content, depending on the URL we are on. Figure 11.4 shows how this skeleton might look. This is just to make...

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