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Interactive Dashboards and Data Apps with Plotly and Dash

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Product type Book
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568914
Pages 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Elias Dabbas Elias Dabbas
Profile icon Elias Dabbas

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Building a Dash App
Chapter 1: Overview of the Dash Ecosystem Chapter 2: Exploring the Structure of a Dash App Chapter 3: Working with Plotly's Figure Objects Chapter 4: Data Manipulation and Preparation, Paving the Way to Plotly Express Section 2: Adding Functionality to Your App with Real Data
Chapter 5: Interactively Comparing Values with Bar Charts and Dropdown Menus Chapter 6: Exploring Variables with Scatter Plots and Filtering Subsets with Sliders Chapter 7: Exploring Map Plots and Enriching Your Dashboards with Markdown Chapter 8: Calculating the Frequency of Your Data with Histograms and Building Interactive Tables Section 3: Taking Your App to the Next Level
Chapter 9: Letting Your Data Speak for Itself with Machine Learning Chapter 10: Turbo-charge Your Apps with Advanced Callbacks Chapter 11: URLs and Multi-Page Apps Chapter 12: Deploying Your App Chapter 13: Next Steps 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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