Bokeh

What it is good for?

Creating diagrams for the web.

Bokeh creates interactive and non-interactive diagrams that can be displayed as web pages (or parts thereof). Of course, plots can also be saved as images. Compared to matplotlib, Bokeh is not as mature yet, but shows many interesting features already

Installed with Python by default

no

Installed with Anaconda

no

How to install it?

  1. pip install bokeh

Example

Plot a simple line plot, write it to a HTML file:

  1. >>> from bokeh.plotting import figure, output_file, show
  3. >>> x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  4. >>> y = [6, 7, 2, 4, 5]
  6. >>> output_file("lines.html", title="line plot example")
  8. >>> p = figure(title="simple line example", x_axis_label='x', y_axis_label='y')
  9. >>> p.line(x, y, legend="Temp.", line_width=2)

Display the results in a web browser:

  1. >>> show(p)

Where to learn more?

http://bokeh.pydata.org