How to Make Your Matplotlib Plots Interactive

Leveraging Matplotlib Widget extension to make your plots interactive, dynamic, and informative

Juan Nathaniel
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readSep 16, 2021

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Matplotlib has been a staple visualization library among many data scientists. It is widely used by some of the more popular libraries, such as seaborn and pandas, as their back-end visualization engine. It is not surprising then, that there are many developments in this area, especially in efforts to make Matplotlib interactive and more user-friendly. Introducing ipympl , a Jupyter extension to…

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