April showers bring May flowers. Check out what’s blossoming at Plotly! 🌸 From a customer showcase webinar with S&P Global to an in-person data science conference, this month was filled with so many exciting programs. Let’s get into it!
🌷 April Events
Production-Grade Data Apps from S&P Global with Databricks and Dash
Leading global provider of financial information services, S&P Global Market Intelligence offers Fortune 500 corporations workflow solutions that produce real-time insight. By utilizing Dash Enterprise and Databricks, Onik Kurktchian, Head of the S&P Global Marketplace Workbench, and his team were able to work with S&P’s external clients to better investigate, experiment with, and refine strategic decisions rooted in complex datasets.
Watch the highlights below or check out the webinar recording!
ODSC East
Our team was at ODSC East where we had the incredible opportunity to connect with our data science community. We also had two sessions:
- Mingo Sanchez, Plotly Senior Sales Engineer, also led a workshop on how to build interactive data apps with Dash.
- Michael Ragsdale, Vice President of Finance, Strategy, and Analytics, and Andrew Schutte, Senior Data Scientist, from the Kansas City Chiefs data analytics team presented how they implemented Python analytics with Dash Enterprise for their Game-Day App. If you missed their talk, learn more about how the Chiefs use Plotly in their user story!
Thank you to everyone who we had the pleasure of connecting with!
Plotly with Databricks In-Person Meetup
Our local London team hosted a special meetup after the Databricks London Data Intelligence Day. Dave Gibbon and Andy Wisbey led discussions on the full potential of Databricks with Plotly. There were great interactions and we thank everyone who joined us!
To learn more about how Databricks and Plotly Dash Enterprise are helping data teams gain a competitive edge through production-grade data applications, download our whitepaper.
Dash Club Hangout
We held our first Dash Club hangout! These hangouts will be monthly sessions where the Plotly Community is invited to hear from data scientists and other data team members. Plotly Community Manager Adam Schroeder chatted with Arne Petter Drageset, who specializes in Dash app development and data engineering at a European energy company.
They chatted about Arne’s career experience that led to his current job working with Plotly and Dash: the challenges he faced, the success stories, and his journey to become the leading Stack Overflow Plotly contributor of all time.
Please email info@plotly.com if you are interested in joining the next one!
🌟 Upcoming Events
Data + AI Summit 2024
As a Databricks Select ISV partner, Plotly offers seamless technical integration, enabling enhanced data visualization capabilities directly within Databricks environments. We are pleased to be part of the Databricks event for the 3rd year in a row!
From June 10–14, this global event brings together tens of thousands of data practitioners, leaders, and visionaries from more than 160 countries to explore the latest in lakehouse, open source, AI/ML, and more.
Interested in Databricks with Plotly? Tune into the following sessions:
- Petabyte Pitstops With Mercedes, Databricks SQL, & Plotly Resampler by Sachin Seth, CEO at Lakeside Analytics
- Powering S&P Global Visual Analytics Apps With Databricks And Plotly by Onik Kurktchian, Head of S&P Global Marketplace Workbench at S&P Global
- Smartstim: Interactive, Real-Time, Ml-Enabled Production Optimization by Muhammed Abdul-Hameed, Principle IoT and Edge Computing SME at Shell
Come say hi and meet our team, located at booth 17. Register now.
PyCon
Plotly will be in Pittsburgh for PyCon 2024! PyCon offers a whole host of events including job fairs, summits, open spaces, and auctions, which bring together Python users from around the world.
On Monday, May 20 at 8 AM, Plotly Community Manager Adam Schroeder will be hosting a sprint where he’ll walk through how to build apps with Dash. Come say ‘hi!’ and learn about career opportunities at Plotly in person! Register now.
Experience Dash Enterprise: Live Demo
Our next live Dash Enterprise demo is on May 15 at 12pm EDT. Mingo Sanchez and Lauren York will share how Dash Enterprise can help you and your team create and manage scalable, interactive, and user-friendly production-grade data applications.
Learn about #Dash apps, ML tuning models, and dynamic UI components and workspaces. They’ll showcase other cool features and functionalities like Snapshot Engine, Design Kit, and the new Plotly App Studio. Save your spot!
🤝 Community Spotlight
➡️ Dash Club 14 is here — This bi-monthly, community-oriented newsletter is written by Adam Schroeder and Chris Parmer, Plotly’s Chief Product Officer. By subscribing, you automatically receive cheat sheets, Dash tips and tricks, sneak peeks of upcoming features, and the latest open-source updates. You can also view articles on LinkedIn and Medium.
➡️ Plotly Dash Online Course — Adam Schroeder, Plotly Community Manager, has created a free 6-session course that teaches how to build dashboards with Plotly Dash. In this course, he’ll teach you how to use Dash to better understand your datasets by creating powerful data apps.
➡️ New Dash Component — Plotly Community member Austin K (Pip Install Python) developed dash-insta-stories. With this component, you can bring the engaging “Stories” feature, made popular by Instagram and Snapchat, directly into your Dash apps. See all the details and GitHub repository here.
⚡ Product Updates
- Dash Enterprise 5.3 — New additions including Plotly App Studio and Chatbot Builder on top of quality-of-life platform updates, and time-saving AI features
- Dash Open Source Framework 2.16.1 (changelog) — Removed dynamic loading
- Dash AG Grid 31.0.1 (changelog) — Updated README.md
- Plotly.py 5.21.0 (changelog) — Added
zorderattribute to various cartesian traces, “between” option to shape layer, “raw”sizemodeto cone trace, andlayout.hoversubplotsto enable hover effects across multiple cartesian subplots. - Plotly.js 2.32.0 (changelog) — Add “bold” weight, “italic” style, and “small-caps” variant options to fonts
📚 Resources
Catch up on blog posts and user stories, deep diving into key topics for data science teams:
- How Fetch Integrated Plotly Dash with Snowflake to Power A Comprehensive Self-Service Analytics Platform
- How to create a beautiful, interactive dashboard layout in Python with Plotly Dash
- S&P Global Market Intelligence Powers ‘Workbench Data Apps’ Commercial Offering using Plotly with Databricks
💼 Join the Plotly team
The Plotly team is expanding! Check out our available roles and join a vibrant organization driving the future of data visualization.
- Manager, Professional Services
- Engineering Manager, App Studio (Python/JS)
- Engineering Manager — Platform, Dash Enterprise
- Engineering Manager, QA
- Senior Software Developer in Test
- Senior Software Engineer, Full stack, App Studio
- Senior Software Engineer, Libraries (Python/JS/React)
- Sales Operations Admin (Temporary Contract)
- Bilingual Sales Development Representative (ES/EN)
- Sales Engineer
The Plotly Community also has job postings from around the world looking for Plotly and Dash skills. Check them out.
👋 Thanks for reading!
Thanks for joining us for this month’s updates. Keep an eye out for more thrilling updates from Plotly coming in May!
