The topic of this Figure Friday is the New York Times bestseller lists from 2011 to 2025. At most, an initial exploration of insights is available on the publisher page of the app.
Example contains:
- Web scraping of images using the Beautiful Soup library (see the “data” folder on py.cafe). Scraping was performed only once to avoid excessive requests.
- Storing data in the browser’s memory using
dcc.Store. - Multi-page application with multiple views.
- Integration of a Google Font for styling.
- No data analysis implemented yet, but refer to the publisher page—analysis will be added later.
Figure Friday is an initiative from the Dash/Plotly community. Every friday a new dataset is made available with some basic code to show a visual and an explanation of the subject. People are invited to adjust the code and improve the visual or create a small app. The next friday a zoom session takes place where some explain why they made what they made and others can give feedback, all in a constructive and respectful atmosphere. In the thread on the community site people share their visual, code and a demo if possible.