Plotly Newsletter, January 2024

Plotly

Published in

Plotly

4 min readJan 31, 2024

Welcome to our first monthly newsletter of 2024! We started the year with incredible in-person and virtual events:

🎇 January events recap

Build LLM Data Apps with LangChain and Dash

We started the year with a special joint webinar with LangChain featuring Erick Friis, Founding Engineer at LangChain. We explored three outstanding examples of data applications that utilize LangChain and Dash across Finance, Biotechnology, and Economics.

Watch the webinar recording here.

CDAO UK 2024

Catch us at CDAO UK on February 6–7! At the event, we’ll talk about the importance of using the best data analytics tools and platforms to enable enterprises to build and scale data applications quickly and efficiently. Come say hi and meet our team, located at booth 27. It’s not too late to register for the event!

Montreal Meet-Up

A few weeks ago, some Plotly team members met up at the Plotly headquarters in Montreal. The gathering was filled with vibrant energy and insightful discussions from the team. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who played a part in making this meet-up truly remarkable and engaging!

🤝 Community Spotlight

➡️ Dash-Langchain App Building Challenge winners — Thank you to everyone who participated in the Dash-Langchain App Building Challenge. The apps submitted by the community went far beyond our expectations and are a testament to how much one can do when combining Langchain with Dash. You can check out the winning apps here. To see them in action and learn from the creators themselves, watch the special joint webinar we held with LangChain.

➡️ Dash Club 13 is here — This bi-monthly, community-oriented newsletter is written by Adam Schroeder and Chris Parmer, Plotly’s Chief Product Officer. This recent edition focuses on new community components, apps, and events.

➡️ Class is in session — Adam Schroeder, Community Manager at Plotly, is conducting a free course on building data apps in Python and Dash. The course deep dives into creating professional apps that connect directly to your analytics code, exploring data sets, and building connections with the Dash community. Secure your spot before the February 3rd deadline.

⚡ Product Updates

Dash Enterprise Platform 5.2 (announcement) — Introducing Jupyter Notebook integration via Plotly App Studio, AI features, and enhanced developer experience.
Dash Open Source Framework 2.14.2 (changelog) — Fixed _allow_dynamic_callbacks for newly added components.
Dash AG Grid 2.4.0 (changelog) — Added function support for filtering rows, columns, and popups and iterated through csvExportParams and defaultCsvExportParams.
Plotly.py 5.18.0 (changelog) — Notable changes include added insiderange to cartesian axes, improved hover interactions, and fixed clearing empty candlestick using react.
Plotly.js 2.28.0 (changelog) — Added align option to Sankey nodes, base64 encoding options, “virtual-webgl” script loading for WebGL 1.

📚 Resources

Catch up on blog posts and user stories, deep diving into key topics for data science teams:

Additionally, we launched a new user story portal. Check out how companies like Cox Automotive, Uniper, and Intuit are using Dash!

💼 Join the Plotly team

New year, new opportunities! We’re starting 2024 off strong with four open roles.

Learn more about the positions and apply.

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 our first Plotly round-up of the year! Stay tuned for more exciting updates from Plotly in February!