If it won't be simple, it simply won't be. [Hire me, source code] by Miki Tebeka, CEO, 353Solutions

Monday, November 03, 2014

A Streaming Chart using Flask and flot

I was teaching a course on "Python Analytics" (pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib ...) and was asked to provide an example of streaming chart - ones that updates periodically. I''ve showed a couple of examples one by generating image using matplotlib and another with bokeh-server. After a couple of days I remembered another way - using flot to render the chart. Here''s a small example using Flask as the web server (the code works both on Python 2 and 3).


Few comments:

  • Don''t use debug=True in production :)
  • For simplicity everything is in one file. However for larger application you might want to take the HTML template(s) out
  • Data is in memory, a restart will wipe it out. If you need data persistence - pick a database (shelve, sqlite3 ...)
  • A big shoutout to Continuum Analytics - Anaconda (and conda) has made my life so much easier teaching this workshop.

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