How to display a Jupyter notebook as dashboard?

Question

I'd like to display an Jupyter (IPython) notebook as a (non-interactive) dashboard.

Coming from a regular notebook, the changes are:

• displaying the notebook so it is not editable (like nbviewer.jupyter.org)

• rerunning the notebook on a regular timer (like Kernel > Restart & Run All)

• hiding the code (like jupyter_contrib_nbextensions "Hide input all", or something similar, but should be enabled by default when notebook loads)

• (optional but nice) having multiple tabs or sections that the notebook can cycle through

What is the best way to do that? Is it better to do in a notebook, or convert the notebook to something that just generates a static html website? If notebook, how to set it up so it is not editable and so it gets rerun regularly?

Answer 1

You can generate HTML to embed into your dashboard. By using

--no-input

Exclude input cells and output prompts from converted document.

This mode is ideal for generating code-free reports.

Just run

jupyter nbconvert \
  --no-input \
  --to html
  --execute test.ipynb 

You can even generate a default config file with

jupyter nbconvert --generate-config

then set

## This allows you to exclude code cell inputs from all templates if set to True.
c.TemplateExporter.exclude_input = True

together with

## This allows you to exclude output prompts from all templates if set to True.
c.TemplateExporter.exclude_output_prompt = True

You can use a custom config by

--config=<Full path of a config file>