Board Game Picker

Board Game Picker is a dashboard created entirely with Python. The dashboard was created to solve two problems: keeping track of what games I have and determining which game I should play when I'm being indecisive. The result can be viewed in the video below.

The repo can be found here: https://github.com/jfnaro/board_game_picker

Panel and Tabulator

This project served as my introduction to the HoloViz toolset. The dashboard is built entirely using the Panel library for Python, which itself utilizes Bokeh and Tabulator. Panel gave me more options than using Power BI, and I fully intend to use what I learned in future projects.

Panel is clearly a very powerful tool, and I was interested from the first presentation I saw using it. The main downside is that the documentation has room for improvement.  It is overly reliant on the documentation for the tools implemented by Panel, but the inputs and functions are often called differently. There are some things that took much longer to figure out than I liked and others that I was only able to figure out through trial and error. However, I do feel confident enough to explore other tools within HoloViz. All in all, I can see why HoloViz isn't a standard name in data science yet, but I think it's getting close.