Building data driven dashboards with Django

By James Outterside | 1 July 2023

Django is a powerful web framework that, when combined with libraries like Plotly or D3.js, makes creating data-driven dashboards efficient and scalable.

Setting up your environment

To start, ensure you have your Django project configured to serve JSON-serializable data via your views. Using Django REST Framework simplifies this significantly.

Visualising Data

We often use Plotly for its robust interactivity. By embedding the generated JSON directly into your templates, you can manipulate trends and filter sets without excessive server hits.