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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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Elias Dabbas Elias Dabbas
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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

Enhancing performance and using big data tools

This is a very important topic, and we always need to make sure that our apps perform at an acceptable level. We didn't tackle this in the book because the focus was mainly to learn how to create a Dash app with all the other details that make it work. We also worked with a very small dataset of a few megabytes. Still, even with a small dataset, it can be crucial to optimize it. Big data can be about handling a massive file, or it can be about a small file that needs to be handled a massive number of times.

These are some things that can be done to optimize performance, but big data is a separate topic altogether, so here are some hints and some areas to explore.

Once we know how our app will behave and what features we will be using, we can clean up some unnecessary code and data that might be hindering our app's performance. Here are some ideas that can be done immediately to our app:

  • Load the necessary data only...
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