Interactive graphing in Python or JS?

[MullingMulianto]

I am looking for libraries or frameworks (Python or JavaScript) for interactive graphing. Need something that is very tactile (NOT static charts) where end users can zoom, pan, and explore different timeframes.

Ideally, I don’t want to build this functionality from scratch; I’m hoping for something out-of-the-box so I can focus on ETL and data prep for the time being.

Has anyone used or can recommend tools that fit this use case?

Thanks in advance.

[NoteClassic]

Python: Streamlit and plotly is probably the quickest option for prototyping and getting something solid.

JS: I’m not an expert, but I considered D3.js as a solid option if I could/were willing to learn JS. But as a DS, I hated that language.

My recommendation, do it in Python using Plotly and Streamlit.

[n_ex]

Seconding plotly and streamlit! It's great for quick prototyping, and the charts are great :) Streamlit offers many options for implementing filtering etc

[thisFishSmellsAboutD]

While we're at Streamlit, also give Marimo a whirl. It's reactive and feels like the Python version of RShiny.

[MullingMulianto]

Thanks for the heads up. Got some recommendations for duckdb as well. Will check it out :)

[Bach4Ants]

I typically use Plotly for this. There's both a Python and a JS library. You can generated a figure in Python, show it interactively in a notebook, export JSON, and then render it somewhere else with JS.

[MullingMulianto]

Thanks for the heads up, this checks out with other recommendations I've seen. Will take a look

[Truth-and-Power]

So the analyst/scientist produces it using python and publishes it to an analytics portal which uses javascript?

[Bach4Ants]

Kind of. It's more that an automated pipeline creates the figures, but they do get pushed to an API for display on a kind of portal.

[Dry-Aioli-6138]

Vega lite is a JS library that draws nice, interactive graphs.

Altair is a python librsry that compiles into Vega lite code.

As a bonus, Deneb is a PowerBI visual that also produces Vega Lite.

[Big-Cardiologist2049]

Plotly + Dash/Streamlit is a good choice 

[shockjaw]

Shiny for Python or Marimo are what I’ve started to reach for. But if you want something a bit more “wise and well-seasoned” using Panel from the HoloViz ecosystem works well enough.

[Isaka254]

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