Plotly Dash on Ubuntu 24.04

Overview

Plotly Dash is an open source Python framework for building interactive, data driven web applications and analytical dashboards without writing JavaScript. You describe a dashboard's layout and its interactive behaviour entirely in Python: charts powered by Plotly, controls such as dropdowns, sliders and date pickers, and callbacks that recompute the charts and tables whenever a user changes an input. The result is a browsable analytics application that updates live in the browser as people explore the data.

This image ships Dash as a finished, ready to run dashboard server rather than a bare framework. A substantive sample dashboard, the Global Development Explorer, is bundled and live on first boot: a Plotly bubble chart, a ranked bar chart and a data table driven by a metric dropdown, a region dropdown and a year slider, so the appliance behaves like a real product immediately. It suits data and analytics teams who want to publish interactive dashboards in pure Python, and developers who want a production ready Dash host they can point at their own application.

Common uses

• Build and serve interactive analytical dashboards in pure Python
• Publish a data exploration app with Plotly charts, dropdowns and sliders your team uses in a browser
• Host your own Dash application in production behind gunicorn and nginx

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.