Build fully customizable dashboards without web development expertise
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Plotly Dash to provide online data analysis tools and BI reports for our internal customers. Final products are hosted in a sandbox environment. Data analysis tools aim to quickly visualize small portions of time series data from various aspects. BI reports are interactive reporting tools. They query BI model tables using the user input and automatically generate a new report.
Pros
- Powerful visualization options.
- Ability to create in-browser interactive visualization apps.
- Ability to create hosted apps.
- Allows you to develop web-based reporting applications without requiring web application development expertise.
Cons
- React JSX syntax support can be added/improved.
- Built-in UI components can be improved.
- The API used for AJAX calls can be made more understandable and simpler.
Likelihood to Recommend
Plotly Dash suits well where you need to build a web-based reporting tool as a minimum viable product. You will be surprised when you build your first hosted web-based reporting tool in a few minutes without the need for web development expertise. However, when it comes to building a more complete solution, you may feel a bit restricted by the options provided by the API. But as you imagine, this is the cost of the abstraction of the web development layer, in other words, simplicity vs completeness. Still, Plotly Dash is a powerful option whenever you prefer simplicity over completeness.
Vetted Review
3 years of experience