Creating HTML links to Plotly graphs

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Overview

  • In this lesson series we will learn how to create an HTML page with links to data graphs produced using Plotly.
  • This will create a simpel Dashboard for us to use so that we can monitor the water quality of a local lake – Peter Hopper lake in Mill Park.
  • An example of a Dashboard is included below.
  • It includes data on dissolved oxygen, pH and water temperature.

Learning Objectives

  • Revision for how to create a HTML web page
  • Revision on how to create and link Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to your HTML document

Create a simple HTML page

  • In a previous lesson we already created a simple HTML web page.
  • We will repeat many of the steps as a simple revision exercise.

Create a directory named peter-hopper-t3

  • Open the Terminal from the top left of the menu bar on the Raspberry Pi.
  • Enter the command ls to list all directory contents.

  • Enter the command mkdir peter-hopper-t3 to create a new directory named peter-hopper-t3

  • Check that the new directory peter-hopper-t3 has been created by listing entering the command ls