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📣 boringg

Best Libraries to Build a Dashboard?


Looking to build my own dashboard using time-series data and plotting software. I realize this is broad question but I figure someone has a solid offering and its tough to filter through all the options.

  👤 montmorencie Accepted Answer ✓
Depends. If you want to check something quickly, show it to few people and forget about it - Tableau, Power BI or even just Plotly in Jupyter will do.

If you want a big app, with a lot of functionalities, exploring data from many different angles, used by a lot of people etc - go for Shiny(if you are using R) or Dash(if you are using Python). You can easily put Dash in Flask or even Django if you want to build even more advanced web apps.

👤 markus_zhang
Used Python with dash and it's pretty good.

BTW depending on what you try to build, dash might be significant slower/faster in development time comparing to Power BI or Tableau.