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PlotAPI supports displaying interactive visualizations directly within Jupyter Notebooks. This includes Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook Classic, Google Colab, and more.

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Let's demonstrate the different output formats we can output to a notebook -- inline!

Save locally or upload to cloud

You can do more within a notebook than just display visualizations inline. You can save locally and upload to cloud too!

We'll use the following data to create a Chord diagram in our examples.

from plotapi import Chord 

matrix = [
    [0, 5, 6, 4, 7, 4],
    [5, 0, 5, 4, 6, 5],
    [6, 5, 0, 4, 5, 5],
    [4, 4, 4, 0, 5, 5],
    [7, 6, 5, 5, 0, 4],
    [4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0],
]

names = ["Action", "Adventure", "Comedy", "Drama", "Fantasy", "Thriller"]

Interactive HTML

Call .show() to display an interactive visualization within a notebook.

Chord(matrix, names).show()

PlotAPI - Chord Diagram

Animated video

Call .show_mp4() to display an animated MP4 video of the visualization within a notebook.

Chord(matrix, names).show_mp4()

Static image

Call .show_png() to display a static PNG image of the visualization within a notebook.

The image quality can be controlled using the scale parameter. The default is scale=2, and the maximum is scale=5.

Chord(matrix, names).show_png()