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Ask HN: 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.
- markus_zhang 5y agoUsed 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.
- boringg 5y agoWhen you say slower/faster... do you mean it’s not quick? Or are you trying to say the LOE to use Dash vs power Bi/tableau is significantly higher? Haven’t used power bi but I don’t have much love for tableau. Recognize it’s value but not for me.
- markus_zhang 5y agoI mean for some of the tasks Tableau (and other software) would be a lot faster. But for dashboards that need a lot of customization and a lot of bells and whistles, I think programming one would be faster and easier to manage.
- montmorencie 5y agoDepends. 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.
- boringg 5y agoK thanks - Dash sounds like the way forward. I’ll take a look into it today.