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Bqplot: Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks
- Plough_Jogger 11y agoWhat are the benefits of this over something like Bokeh?
- anarcat 11y ago... or matplotlib?
- IanCal 11y agoDoes matplotlib let you put interactive visualisations in iPython notebooks?
- jre 11y agoNot really. You can use widgets and redraw when the user changes something, but this gets clumsy quickly. Bokeh allows for interactive visualization though. Vispy[1] does to, by using webgl (but this require a running ipython kernel - so the plot will be static when exported to HTML). This[2] is an interesting blog post about the future of python plotting/visualization. [1] http://vispy.org/ http://vispy.org/ [2] http://www.almarklein.org/future_vis.html http://www.almarklein.org/future_vis.html
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWith matplotlib you don't need to redraw the whole plot or even the whole axes you can just change the data and update the relevant artist.
- pmedwards 11y agoYes, you can use the nbagg backend [1]. [1] http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#the-nbagg-backend http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#the-nbagg-backend
- JupiterMoon 11y agoYou can easily place the matplotlib plot in a widget and e.g. one can allow the user to control it with sliders and input boxes etc.
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- scorpion032 11y agoInteresting to note the use of IPython as a research tool even within a corporate financial firm.
- artnep 11y agoIt's also used heavily within Google. I think that a lot of companies used to have internal tools like IPython, but now IPython/Jupyter has surpassed them all. Hooray for OSS.
- scorpion032 11y agoNice to know. I was given to understand Matlab was heavily used inside of Google, but that was a while ago. Julia, Python and Jupyter is awesome toolkit for research, presentation and collaboration. Hooray indeed to the awesome IPython team!
- catchmrbharath 11y agoIs there any documentation for the plotting library? I would love to explore it, but couldn't find many examples / documentation for different kinds of plot.
- skadamat 11y agoLooks like the main advantage is bqplot allows you to create interactive data visualizations. Bokeh and Plotly (commercial product) are the existing libraries that do this, but leave a lot to be desired.
- jparmer 11y agoWhat else are you looking for in Bokeh and Plotly?