Talking to Python from Javascript: Flask and the fetch API

Using Python to process data required for a dynamic web interface or visualisation.

Daniel Ellis Research
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 26, 2020

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A Sample Network — D. Ellis 2020

Within the field of data science, it is common to be required to use a selection of tools, each specific to their job. A role requiring visualisation using a web interface, but processing of a Python script, it is often better…

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Research Software Engineer specialising in High-Performance Computing and Data Visualisation. — PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Masters in Theoretical Physics.