Dash: load local data using pandas

Dash Python
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I would like to load local data (csv file using pandas) on my dash app, but I get this error:

FileNotFoundError

My data are in the folder ‘data’. This doesn’t work:

server = flask.Flask('congress')
app = dash.Dash('congress', server=server, csrf_protect=False)
server.secret_key = os.environ.get('secret_key', 'secret')

pol = pd.read_csv('data/tweets_pol.csv')

@server.route('/data/<path:path>')
def serve_static(path):
    root_dir = os.getcwd()
    return flask.send_from_directory(os.path.join(root_dir, 'data'), path)

Any suggestions?

2

I don’t quite follow. Why are using the server.route? And which line is failing, the pd.read_csv line or the flask.send_from_directory line?

3

I guess pd.read_csv is failing, but I am not completely sure.

FileNotFoundError: File b'/data/tweets_pol.csv' does not exist

Do you have an example that works with data from local files?

Thank you!

4

Are you on windows? If so, you’ll probably need to use windows path names in pd.read_csv. On my mac, pd.read_csv('data/my-datafile.csv') works for me.

5

I am using a mac. Are you using any flask server command?

6

No, you shouldn’t need to use this. Here is a concrete example from one of the demo apps: https://github.com/plotly/dash-drug-discovery-demo/blob/master/app.py#L13.

7

Got it. It is working, the problem was I was using python mypath/app.py.

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8

Can someone show me a working example of how to read CSV file and plot a graph on local-server.

I am new to plotly and trying to understand how it works.

I have figured out how to use the pre-defined data in using this example but not sure how to read a csv file and do the same.