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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568914

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Dash

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Dabbas

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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We covered the basic Dash components and there are many others available. Keep in mind that there are three possible approaches here:

Go deeper into components you know: Although we covered many components, there is always more to explore – more options to learn, use, and gain experience in. You probably want to go deeper into dash_table, which can offer quite complex functionality and spreadsheet-style options.
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