Embed Seaborn in Retool dashboard?

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  1. Hi community. I want to do a graph rich dashboard. Embedding third parties is a bit fiddly (like preset); I find Plotly really hard even with the Retool UI.

    I’d really like to use Seaborn; basically I’d like to throw some parameters into a ‘thing’ (custom component?) and return interactive Seaborn graphs.

    Not sure what would live in the thing, some kind of link to a jupyter notebook? In fact are there any cloud based notebooks you can iframe in Retool?

    (a) Seaborn is just very pretty

    (b) Seaborn has facets.

    This is probably impossible or very hard. Obviously can do this in a workflow and chuck out image files which might be a short term hack.

    Thoughts?

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Hi @domjammoo,

Thanks for reaching out!

As you've noted, an external solution would need to either live in an iframe, custom React component, or generated images that you can display in your app. I haven't seen any apps with Seaborn yet, but if you have Seaborn images, I'm happy to help with displaying them in your app.

There is a similar discussion around visualizations here (using Mermaid), here (using Vega), and here (using d3). I've also seen some community members using Chart.js in a custom React component.

If you end up using our native plotly chart components, I'm happy to help with any blockers!