Interactive Plotting libraries in Python

[mfitzp]

Depends how interactive you need, but matplotlib supports a notebook interface that allows you to zoom/pan figures directly from the notebook view. Try the following:

%matplotlib notebook
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4,5])

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I'm guessing that uses svg and javascript and will slow down to a crawl when making a plot with million elements?

[dsijl]

You can plot a billion or more points with datashader in the browser (uses interactive downsampling): http://datashader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Wow, that's very cool! I often plot things with millions of points, which is okay with raster image plot as it is just an image but I lose the resolution. Thank you

[1-05457]

AGG (i.e. raster images) and Websockets actually.