dashboards

There have been a couple attempts to add dashboarding to Jupyter: https://github.com/jupyter/dashboards was/is a dashboard system built by a team at IBM. I think the project stalled somewhat after IBM stopped funding it. There are a few long threads in the currently active jupyter repos about building dashboard systems as extensions: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/1640, https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/2018.

I have built several dashboards with nothing but jupyter notebooks + jupyter widgets [1] with the help of jupyter-dashboards [2]. Granted they were little more than api calls followed by visualizations. - [1] http://jupyter.org/widgets - [2] https://github.com/jupyter/dashboards

I know many developers who've integrated Jupyter Notebooks in their workflow too. For Python-specific things, it's a great way to replicate bugs, try out a few initial solution paths, and share them with collaborators who can then interact with. Regarding D3, I haven't tried that out yet, although I've used the `folium` Python package, which generates leaflet.js code you can put on a website. Otherwise, maybe check out [Jupyter Dashboards](https://github.com/jupyter/dashboards), whose interactive widgets seem to be in the same vein as OP.

If I understand that what your looking for is easily deployable jupyter-dashboards (https://github.com/jupyter/dashboards) where you can make kind of micro data science apps. That is exactly what we have in mind as our next step.