Dash App

[firmai]

This is an extremely cool pacakge, many research units that I have been working at are slowly switching from jupyter notebooks to dash type web-apps, would there be a way to get this into plolty dash? That would be an extremely exciting development.

[danthe3rd]

Hi @firmai
That's a very interesting point, but it's not possible at the moment (and it's not in the roadmap either at this point).

[kravitsjacob]

As a user of both HiPlot and Dash, I can also attest this would be extremely useful. The existing parallel coordinate functionality in Dash is lacking and the HiPlot features would be much appreciated by the Dash community (Thread).

[kravitsjacob]

Hey @firmai @danthe3rd ,

I hope all is well. Just wanted to follow-up on the whole Dash/HiPlot integration discussion. I was able to get a (quite-hacky) one-way integration working using dash.html.Iframe to render the html produced by a HiPlot experiment via to_html(). The example is linked here.

This is one-way in the sense that interactions with the HiPlot rendering aren't being sent back to Dash. However, the user is able to select which columns to plot via Dash dropdown. I believe it is possible to get two-way integration but honestly didn't have the need to do it with my particular project.

The performance is fine with a small app like this but I would imagine it would suffer with larger projects as HiPlot is creating a new experiment with each Dash state change. I would be interested expanding this integration in the future so reach out if there is interest.

[danthe3rd]

Hey @kravitsjacob thanks a lot for the quick proto you did! That will unlock a lot of people :)

I would be interested expanding this integration in the future so reach out if there is interest.

I believe that a proper integration would require to create an actual component in JS for hiplot. Is that something you are interested in doing? I'm happy to support you in doing so - if you need any change to HiPlot's codebase, or review pull requests. We already have an adaptation for Streamlit, I believe the adaptation for Dash would be a bit similar (?).

[kravitsjacob]

Hey @danthe3rd

Yes, I agree proper integration would require some sort of JS wrapper for HiPlot. As for the development, I'm gonna need some time haha - I'm in the middle of a PhD and got some tight timelines for the next few months. However, it's looking like my workload should be a bit more manageable at the start of 2022. I'll also ask some friends/colleagues to see if there is interest in helping. As I mentioned before, having Dash integration could really open up a lot of users as the existing Dash parallel plot functionality is quite lacking. Let's stay in touch!

[namikisik]

Hey @danthe3rd

Yes, I agree proper integration would require some sort of JS wrapper for HiPlot. As for the development, I'm gonna need some time haha - I'm in the middle of a PhD and got some tight timelines for the next few months. However, it's looking like my workload should be a bit more manageable at the start of 2022. I'll also ask some friends/colleagues to see if there is interest in helping. As I mentioned before, having Dash integration could really open up a lot of users as the existing Dash parallel plot functionality is quite lacking. Let's stay in touch!

Hi @kravitsjacob
I would like to ask a solution for exporting the monitored table only as csv file. Unlike the Export button csv file, I want to exclude the unselected columns from file.

[kravitsjacob]

Hey @namikisik I agree with your request completely. I think it may be a more hiplot-specific feature request (and not related to the dash integration specifically). Therefore, I recommend starting a new issue to request your feature (just so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle or we start mixing topics).

Just to update on the dash integration front, @jakeval and I started some initial work in December. We have a fairly solid roadmap and have been working on it on and off at the start of 2022. We are both in graduate school now so it's been mainly a weekend project. I'd recommend following us for updates. We hope to have some form of hiplot-dash integration working by the end of the year!