I am working on generating some plots using python, but I am generating these plots using matplotlib which is saved as images. If I create an html page as a report with these plots, they are static images. I cannot zoom in or roll over on the plot to see more detailed or specific information on a time series plot.
My question is how can I make these plots dynamic? Can someone suggest the best way to get started and move forward from there?
You should use some additional libraries to achive your goal.
For example, there some good Python web frameworks wich you can use:
CherryPy - allows you to simply write web-app with Python and you can import your plot there.
Plotly Python API - it would simply generate interactive plot, but store it at Plotly platform, but they provide embeded-code option, so you can use it on your site.
I would suggest Plotly, because it is much simpler, but it depends on your needs.
You will definitely want to do it using javascript. It's by far your best option when it comes to quickly make interactive graphs that you can present to a lot of users. Any of these js libraries will do a great job.
You will then want python to provide the data. Depending on the js library you are using, you might be able to parse data from .json, .csv, etc...
If you don't need the data that makes up your plots to change (with user input, for example), then generating and saving flat files with python and having javascript parsing them from some directory might be just enough.
Otherwise, you want to take a look at a python web framework and use one as backend to serve the plots data by request (in that case .json is probably the right format).
Frameworks like Flask, CherryPy, Pyramid or even web2py might be the easier ones to start with.
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I have an interactive graph generated by Plotly in Python that I saved to an html file using plotly.offline.plot(fig, filename='/tmp/interactiveGraph.html')
I am now trying to embed this interactive graph into some kind of webpage, using either Dash or Django. I'm leaning toward Django at the moment, given that I have an html version of the graph. Which would be better?
My code for the webpage is in a separate file from the code where I am creating the graph.
A lot of the tutorials I've found online just say to add a few lines to the template, but I don't know how to get those lines that they've described.
tl;dr: I'm looking for guidance as how to integrate an html file-for a Plotly interactive graph-with a web python script using Django or Dash
Side Question:
what is the difference between
plotly.offline.plot(fig, include_plotlyjs=False, output_type='div')
and what I have above?
Reference:
https://github.com/ricleal/DjangoPlotLy
https://www.pythonsetup.com/how-implement-data-visualization-django-and-plotly/
I would highly reccomend Django, its a great framework. As for this, the best option is to generate the data via JavaScript and Plotly has a great library for this. If you must use python, then Django can be used. Assuming you are familiar with Django, inside of your view you can collect your data and build your graph ( I would reccomend a celery task for something long running like this unless they are small graphs), and you can then collect the return from creating the graph in div format. This will return a string that holds all the needed html and css for the graphs. Put this inside of you get_context_data() method in your view and place it into the dictionary. You can the use that object inside of a template. I have done this before, if you are having a hard time feel free to DM me. Hope this helps some!
In regards to your side question, I believe having False for including JS will make the graph a bit smaller assuming you have an include for the plotly JS library. They might have done this in a newer release to make the graphs faster as they were significantly slower in the browser from python that the JS rendered one.
I'm building an app in Python which I would like to make available on the web. On the server side I will have a networkx graph of nodes and links, each of which will have their own pictoral representation. I'm looking for a way to represent this graph on my webpage, and looking for something that will be interactive and aesthetically pleasing. The interactivity required is that I need the user to be able to interact with the graph in an intuitive way, adding nodes and links, getting info about existing nodes, etc. It would conceptually be somewhat similar to mohiomap in web interface.
I've looked into django and flask, but I don't understand if this could be accomplished using these libraries. It seems like fairly graphic oriented content, more like a game than anything. I was looking at pygame and thought that using pyjsdl this might be more appropriate. My question is, is the above something that could be achieved with python. What would be the preferred language/library? I've looked at django and flask, but am wondering if pyglet or pygame may be actually more appropriate for this task. I mainly want to avoid going to deep into anything before I understand conceptually what constructs best fit the described purpose!
I realise this question is currently vague, please advise how I can make it more specific and I will update.
Web browser can execute only JavaScript so you will have to learn JavaScript and use JavaScript libraries in browser plus Django/Flask on server.
PyGame/Pyglet will be useless.
There are tools to conver Python to JavaScript but it may not be so usefull like pure JavaScript or existing libraries in JavaScript.
BTW: see JSNetworkX
These days I've been trying to create a webpage on which one can watch a dynamic plotting demo. I'm using Django to construct the webpage, and recently have learned that matplotlib.animation can do such kind of job. I wonder whether it's possible to use this API, matplitlib.animation, while building the webpage using Django. (I tried to do it using 'HttpResponse' but only to fail.) If there is any other way to do this, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
You need to write the animation to disk and then serve it up via some static interface. Here is an idea of how to accomplish it:
Make your webserver point /animations to /var/www/animations
Save your animations in that folder (You can save mp4 and use HTML5 but if you want to save a GIF this SO has information on what is needed. You could use a model to hold initializing parameters and a hash of those (which would make a decent filename).
Render it in your templates with a regular img tag (or video tag if you use mp4).
I have a project with many scripts using Matplotlib. I'd like to build a web interface for this project.
How do you place a Bokeh chart within a Chameleon template? I'm using Pyramid and the Deform bootstrap if that matters.
Does anyone have a good example out there?
There are several different issues to address here.
If you are truly trying to port a lot of Matplotlib plots into interactive JS, then it's possible that the mpld3 project is a good fit for you. However, you should be aware that by using D3, there will be performance implications, depending on how many points are in your plot. Bokeh also does have basic Matplotlib support now, and will only be getting more. Jake is currently refactoring the mpld3 project into an explicit exporter and then D3 renderer, and we will also be potentially building off of this work for the Bokeh Matplotlib support.
To do this with Bokeh, you can grab the raw HTML for a plot by looking at how e.g. HTMLFileSession.dumps() is implemented: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/session.py#L295. The default template is bokeh/templates/base.html; however, this is a full HTML file, and not a fragment. The dumps() method is pretty straightforward, as is the default template, so you should be able to get what you need from looking at those. Hopefully for the next release, we will have finished out a HTMLFragmentSession which will make it easier to embed.
You want to use plot.create_html_snippet. This function returns the code that you want to appear in the HTML, the function also writes out an embed file.
This is what an embed snippet looks like
<script src="http://localhost:5006/static/dc0c7cfd-e657-4c79-8150-6a66be4dccb8.embed.js" bokeh_plottype="embeddata" bokeh_modelid="dc0c7cfd-e657-4c79-8150-6a66be4dccb8" bokeh_modeltype="Plot" async="true"></script>
the following arguments control how the embed file is written out, and where the js code searches for the embed files.
embed_base_url controls the url path (it can be absolute or relative) that the javascript will search for the embed file in.
embed_save_loc controls the directory that python will write out the embed file in. embed_save_loc isn't necessary when server=True
static_path controls the url path (it can absolute or relative) that the javascript will use to construct URLS for bokeh.js and bokeh.css. It defaults to http://localhost:5006/static/, but could just as easily point to a CDN
When running the bokeh server, navigate to http://localhost:5006/bokeh/generate_embed/static . I think this requires you to be running on master because of a bug.
I hope this helps.
I want to Embed a chart in a Web Application developed using django.
I have come across Google charts API, ReportLab, PyChart, MatPlotLib and ChartDirector
I want to do it in the server side rather than send the AJAX request to Google chart APIs, as I also want to embed the chart into the PDF.
Which is the best option to use, and what are the relative merits and demerits of one over the other.
Another choice is CairoPlot.
We picked matplotlib over the others for some serious graphing inside one of our django apps, primarily because it was the only one that gave us exactly the kind of control we needed.
Performance generating PNG's was fine for us but... it was a highly specialized app with less than 10 logins a day.
Well, I'm involved in an open source project, Djime, that uses OpenFlashChart 2.
As you can see from our code, generating the JSON-data that OFC uses is a bit complex, but the output is very nice and user friendly, since you can add tooltips, etc. to the different elements.
Open Flash Chart 2
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/
python library http://btbytes.github.com/pyofc2/
kybi
One package I've wanted to try is graphite. It's a graphing server / platform built with Django. It's specialized for "numeric time-series data" though, like stock prices or bandwidth utilization. If that fits your need I would check it out. Here are some screenshots:
http://graphite.wikidot.com/screen-shots
I like client side charts because you can get full page plotting.
A good options seems to be Jquery Flot : http://code.google.com/p/flot/ which can load JSON data.
However, you won't get pdf support.
Perhaps you might want to have a look here: Django Plotting app.
The HowTo describes how to embed matplotlib plots into the admin interface and create a PDF view.
I have used FusionCharts Free with Django.
Its flash based, open source, multi-licensed and it's well documented. It's ActionScript 1, but AS version wasn't really a criteria for me, though it could be for others.