poems VS covid-19

Analysis and plots were made using Python, website is written in Gatsby and JavaScript. The plotting library used for the visualizations is plotly. All code is available on GitHub. All data used comes from the Reddit API and the Pushshift API.

The code that was used to create this notebook can be found on GitHub.

Plotly Dash is a opensource, cross-platform & free. It's also free and super easy to host on something like Heroku for small projects. Throw in another tool here: Jupyter Lab - you can experiment in the latter, build some amazing dataviz yourself using tools like Plotly Express, even add in some interactivity with widgets - then, when you're ready you can refactor your code into a dashboard in Plotly Dash. With a little code & knowledge, you can build something Tableau-like fairly rapidly, and you have the full power of python & data science libraries at your fingertips (BI tools have python integration, but it's very clunky). They have a growing open source community of libraries (built with react & python) and examples/galleries, so there's lots out there to copy. To illustrate this, here's a dashboard built in Plotly over a couple of nights at the start of the pandemic: https://github.com/nite/covid-19 - this should illustrate how quick & easy it is to build something tableau-like, and how to host it in docker/heroku. There's a jupyter Lab notebook in the notebooks directory, and a link to the dashboard live in the readme (takes a min to spin up if no-one has hit it recently)