[akama]

I actually just implemented some thing very similar to this. You probably want to checkout Dashing [1] which has built in plugins for a lot of things already. It's pretty easy to work with as well.

[1] https://shopify.github.io/dashing/

[davewongillies]

And if the parent prefers doing it in python, there's pydashie [1], a python port of Dashing.

[1] https://github.com/evolvedlight/pydashie

[scott_karana]

Dashing is great, but it's Ruby on the backend, not Python :)

[tdicola]

It actually has a REST API for sending a dashboard data so you can pump in new data from Python or any language.

[scott_karana]

Yeah, well aware. I was only address this from GP:

> I've been looking for something to do this (below) in python at least on backend.