Dashboards in Python for Beginners using Dash — Live Updates and Streaming Data into a Dashboard

Add a Live Feed to Dash

Eric Kleppen
Level Up Coding

Stream Data to Dash

There are several reasons to analyze streaming data. Perhaps you’re looking for anomalies in credit transactions, monitoring network traffic and server resources in a time series, or capturing tick data for automated trading algorithms. Or maybe you simply want to see what people are saying about wine on Twitter! In this article, I’ll explain how to use the Python library Tweepy to stream live tweets into a the wine dashboard built with Dash.

If you’re new to Dash, please check out my previous articles explaining Dash basics. This article builds on the dashboard from those articles. If you’re already familiar with Dash and want to see an example of how simple it is to stream data into your app, continue reading!

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Responses (2)

What are your thoughts?

I actually found getting access to twitter API quite daunting and quit trying. They kept asking me a bunch of questions like how was my use of the data not going to benefit a government agency. What was my purpose for wanting access etc. I'm not…

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Do you have screenshots or a live demo?

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