Developing an Smooth Heatmap Application and Data Visualization

Could someone give me some direction?

i try to implement a Smooth Heatmap Appliction to display Sensor Data in real time and im not sure where to start.

Im not sure if i should try to use Unity, because i saw that u can make really clean Heatmaps with easy Shader implementation.

Could someone give me some direction? Should i just do it in Unity, or should i try it in VS Code, and if so: how can i get a smooth animation, right now i just have my array and the heatmap as a plotted figure with a cmap.

The heatmap animtation itself should look like: https://www.alanzucconi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/heatmap4.gif

My first attempt was, too implement it via matplotlib in VS Code, but with that, i cant make smooth animations (guess i would need some shader implementation there aswell?).

Then i saw some people do some really clean heatmap applications in Unity, which had some really nice animations with the use of Shaders, but im not sure, if an Unity application is the right way, to write an non game related Dashboard.