Re: [matplotlib-devel] Add labels to points to aid data exploration

2014-03-02 Thread Matt Sundquist
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 exporterthat lets you make interactive, online, labels

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Add labels to points to aid data exploration

2014-03-02 Thread Raphael C
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

[matplotlib-devel] Add labels to points to aid data exploration

2014-03-02 Thread Raphael C
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)

[matplotlib-devel] Add labels to points to aid data exploration

2014-03-02 Thread Raphael C
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)