What's the difference between Dash and Plotly?











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I built a Flask app and i would like to embed a chart for my data using Plotly. Making some research on Plotly i found about Dash, and i'm having some troubles deciding which one of the two i need to use for my project. What's the difference between them?










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      I built a Flask app and i would like to embed a chart for my data using Plotly. Making some research on Plotly i found about Dash, and i'm having some troubles deciding which one of the two i need to use for my project. What's the difference between them?







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          Actually Dash was made by Plotly's creators as a way to easily implement a web interface and create dashboards with Plotly without having to learn javascript, html and other web technologies. With Dash you don't make visualizations, you build an interface to display Plotly's visualizations.



          It uses Flask under the hood so it is specially compatible with other Flask apps. For more info refer to Dash's deployment reference.






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            Actually Dash was made by Plotly's creators as a way to easily implement a web interface and create dashboards with Plotly without having to learn javascript, html and other web technologies. With Dash you don't make visualizations, you build an interface to display Plotly's visualizations.



            It uses Flask under the hood so it is specially compatible with other Flask apps. For more info refer to Dash's deployment reference.






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              Actually Dash was made by Plotly's creators as a way to easily implement a web interface and create dashboards with Plotly without having to learn javascript, html and other web technologies. With Dash you don't make visualizations, you build an interface to display Plotly's visualizations.



              It uses Flask under the hood so it is specially compatible with other Flask apps. For more info refer to Dash's deployment reference.






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                Actually Dash was made by Plotly's creators as a way to easily implement a web interface and create dashboards with Plotly without having to learn javascript, html and other web technologies. With Dash you don't make visualizations, you build an interface to display Plotly's visualizations.



                It uses Flask under the hood so it is specially compatible with other Flask apps. For more info refer to Dash's deployment reference.






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                Actually Dash was made by Plotly's creators as a way to easily implement a web interface and create dashboards with Plotly without having to learn javascript, html and other web technologies. With Dash you don't make visualizations, you build an interface to display Plotly's visualizations.



                It uses Flask under the hood so it is specially compatible with other Flask apps. For more info refer to Dash's deployment reference.







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