Is this something the new WebAgg backend should solve? Raphael
On 2 March 2014 20:46, Raphael C <drr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you that is good to know. From my personal point of view I was > just interested in a view simple form of interactivity. That is the > ability to click on data points and see their labels. I have to say > mpldatacursor is very nice and does precisely this. It however has > some disadvantages. > > a) It's not possible to save the current state of your interactive > visualisation to send to someone else (except as a snapshot png). > b) Due to its dependencies it is also hard to send your code to > someone else as they are unlikely to have the dependencies to get it > to work. This would be solved by having the functionality in something > standard like matplotlib. > c) There appears to be only one contributor currently. (I could be > wrong about this last point.) > > Raphael > > On 2 March 2014 20:32, Matt Sundquist <m...@plot.ly> wrote: >> Hey Raphael, >> >> Jake Vanderplas has been working on mpld3, which lets you create D3 >> renderings of matplotlib graphs. We (Plotly) are working with him on a >> matplotlib exporter that lets you make interactive, online, labels/text on >> the hover Plotly graphs with matplotlib. Here is an IPython Notebook showing >> how to do that: >> >> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/theengineear/mplexporter/blob/master/notebooks/PlotlyTest.ipynb?create=1 >> >> We're early on still, and Jake is definitely the driving force/mastermind >> behind the project. We're hoping to support more and more plotting from >> matplotlib and would love help, tips, feedback, and suggestions. We're happy >> to talk more if you'd like. >> >> Thanks a bunch, >> M >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Raphael C <drr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I posted this to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2856 >>> but it was suggested that the mailing list was a better place. >>> >>> I am plotting a simple graph with many points. I would like to explore >>> the data by clicking on some of them to see what their labels are >>> (much as I can already in R). I don't want to see all the labels at >>> once. Currently the only solution I found was mpldatacursor. Is this >>> feature something interesting to matplotlib developers or even being >>> currently worked on? >>> >>> Raphael >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. >>> Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer >>> Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. >>> Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. >>> >>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >>> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
