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Exercise

Date picker for sales data

The interactive sales dashboard you created was a smash hit; however, it is vital for the sales team to be able to monitor daily sales to analyze patterns and trends. You have been asked if you can extend your work to include a filter to view sales by major category on a particular date?

This sounds like a job for a date picker! You are definitely able to assist with the brief.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Add a dcc.)object that allows a user to select a single date with identifier sale_date below line 25.
  • Set the initial date to be April 11, 2011 below line 30.
  • Set the min and max allowable dates of the date picker to be the min and max dates in the InvoiceDate column of ecom_sales below line 27.
  • Add a component that will render a Plotly figure with identifier sales_cat below line 37.