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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

Using callback functions with maps

What we have done so far was done with one indicator, and we used this indicator to select the desired column from the dataset. We can easily create a dropdown to allow users to choose any of the available indicators and let them explore the whole dataset. The year variable is already interactive and part of the chart, as used by the animation_frame parameter. So, this can become the first exploratory interactive chart that users start with on our app, to help them get an overview of the available metrics and how they are changing in time.

Setting this up is straightforward, as we did several times. We will implement it, and after that, we will see how to use the Markdown component to add context around/about the map chart and the chosen indicator.

Let's do the necessary steps to implement this functionality independently in JupyterLab:

  1. Create a Dropdown component, where the available options are the column names of poverty, using...
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