Today I plotted some data which I intend to use in a blog post. The Google Docs output I was working with wasn't exactly that pleasant to look at, so I figured it was a good excuse to give Bokeh a try.
I was installing from source
and found that on doing
pip install -r requirements.txt
that the install of gevent was failing:
gevent:
gevent/libevent.h:9:19: fatal error: event.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Thanks to this
post
for the fix which was simply to apt-get install libevent-dev
before
doing the pip install
.
Not done much with yet apart from installing it and getting the bundled examples to run, but it's quite nice that you can embed plots directly into HTML. Take a look at the demo here.
Edit 11/12/2013: I forgot to add that on trying out Bokeh, I couldn't
actually get one of their
tutorials
to work as it should. Rather than two plots on the same set of axes, I
was getting two separate plots on two different sets of axes… As this
is something I actually needed for work, I reverted back to matplotlib
as a result. So Bokeh looks promising, but might be worth trying again
in a few months.