Data Science market needs and customer insights

Justin Andrews, Senior Director of Innovation and Insight at Shorelight, shares how his team uses Plotly Dash Enterprise to support international student enrollment and deliver powerful analytics tools across the organization. Dash apps are interactive tools that help users explore data, discover insights, and make informed decisions on the fly.

After reaching the limits of tools like Tableau, particularly with collaboration, reusability, and integrating APIs, Justin’s team turned to Python and Dash. Dash Enterprise allowed them to build what Justin calls “mega apps” that integrate ETL, modeling, and visualization in a single environment.

• Dash Enterprise supports building comprehensive apps with 75+ visualizations and 30+ filters
• The team now delivers new features or changes in a matter of hours, not days
• Real-time prototyping and deployment to senior leadership is seamless
• Git integration enables collaboration and lifecycle management across a small team

Justin emphasized how Dash fits naturally into the software development lifecycle, making it easier to apply DevOps best practices to data work. The ability to stay in Python while building interactive and production-grade applications was a major differentiator compared to low-code tools or BI platforms.

Plotly App Studio adds another layer of flexibility for smaller, faster-use cases. Justin uses App Studio to deploy single-topic apps for executive review or to verify data during ETL development. Its simplicity, notebook integration, and auto-generated layout make it ideal for quick analysis.

• App Studio launches directly from Jupyter Notebooks
• Callback logic is handled automatically for faster prototyping
• Design tools allow easy control over layout and appearance
• Useful even for ETL and data quality checks during pipeline development

For Shorelight, Dash Enterprise is a complete platform for building and managing interactive data products that connect data, analytics, and business users in one place.

Watch the video to follow along and hear more about how Shorelight is building high-impact data applications with Dash Enterprise.