Panel dashboard#
The NYC Taxi trips dataset is a well-studied data science example. Here we show how to build a simple dashboard for exploring 10 million taxi trips in a Jupyter notebook using Datashader, then deploying it as a standalone dashboard using Panel.
Running the dashboard requires having a live Python process running (not just a static webpage or anaconda.org notebook viewer). Before you run the notebook or server, you’ll need to set up a conda environment and run conda install -c pyviz datashader panel holoviews, and you’ll need to get the data file.
import holoviews as hv
import param
import dask.dataframe as dd
import panel as pn
from holoviews.operation.datashader import rasterize, dynspread
from holoviews.element.tiles import EsriStreet
hv.extension('bokeh', logo=False)
usecols = ['dropoff_x','dropoff_y','pickup_x','pickup_y','dropoff_hour','pickup_hour','passenger_count']
df = dd.read_parquet('data/nyc_taxi_wide.parq')[usecols].persist()
opts = dict(width=1000,height=600,xaxis=None,yaxis=None,bgcolor='black',show_grid=False)
cmaps = ['fire','bgy','bgyw','bmy','gray','kbc']
class NYCTaxiExplorer(param.Parameterized):
alpha = param.Magnitude(default=0.75, doc="Alpha value for the map opacity")
cmap = param.ObjectSelector('fire', objects=cmaps)
hour = param.Range(default=(0, 24), bounds=(0, 24))
location = param.ObjectSelector(default='dropoff', objects=['dropoff', 'pickup'])
@param.depends('location', 'hour')
def points(self):
points = hv.Points(df, kdims=[self.location+'_x', self.location+'_y'], vdims=['dropoff_hour'])
if self.hour != (0, 24):
points = points.select(dropoff_hour=self.hour)
return points
def view(self,**kwargs):
points = hv.DynamicMap(self.points)
tiles = EsriStreet().apply.opts(alpha=self.param.alpha, **opts)
agg = rasterize(points, width=600, height=400).opts(cnorm='eq_hist', nodata=0)
return tiles * dynspread(agg).apply.opts(cmap=self.param.cmap)
taxi = NYCTaxiExplorer(name="NYC Taxi Trips")
pn.Row(taxi.param, taxi.view()).servable()
WARNING:param.main: pandas could not register all extension types imports failed with the following error: cannot import name 'ABCIndexClass' from 'pandas.core.dtypes.generic' (/home/runner/work/examples/examples/nyc_taxi/envs/default/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/dtypes/generic.py)
As you can see, the resulting object is rendered in the notebook (above), and it’s usable as long as you have Python running on this code. You can also launch this app as a standalone server outside of the notebook, because we’ve marked the relevant object .servable(). That declaration means that if someone later runs this notebook as a server process (using panel serve --show dashboard.ipynb), your browser will open a separate window with the serveable object ready to explore or share, just like the screenshot at the top of this notebook.
# ! panel serve --show --port 5009 dashboard.ipynb