[Matplotlib-users] how to create interactive plots in jupyter python3 notebook?

[Andy D. <An...@Sa...>]

>Hi
>
>I currently have a plot that gets update in a loop with data from a
>remote system. It works and looks great. (matplotlib rocks!) I currently
>use
>
>%matplotlib inline
>
>Now I need to make the graph interactive. By interactive I mean I would
>like the user to be able to
>
>
>1. move the mouse to get info about that point in the graph
>2. Click on a point on the graph to do some sort of drill down. I¹ll
>probably need to fetch additional data, to display. The data might be
>text or some sort of table to display
>3. Scroll the graph along it¹s x and y axis
>4. Add a couple of widgets that let users select parameters of the graph
>or underlying data set
>
>
>Googling around I found people mention several choices
>
>1) Œ%matplotlib notebook¹ and the nbagg backend, how ever I have not been
>able to find any documentation or code tutorials, or examples
>
>2)  Plot.ly https://plot.ly/python/ipython-notebook-tutorial/
>
>3) Python widgets for the Jupiter Notebook
>https://github.com/ipython/ipywidgets
>
>Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Andy