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Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh

By : Kevin Jolly
Book Image

Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh

By: Kevin Jolly

Overview of this book

Adding a layer of interactivity to your plots and converting these plots into applications hold immense value in the field of data science. The standard approach to adding interactivity would be to use paid software such as Tableau, but the Bokeh package in Python offers users a way to create both interactive and visually aesthetic plots for free. This book gets you up to speed with Bokeh - a popular Python library for interactive data visualization. The book starts out by helping you understand how Bokeh works internally and how you can set up and install the package in your local machine. You then use a real world data set which uses stock data from Kaggle to create interactive and visually stunning plots. You will also learn how to leverage Bokeh using some advanced concepts such as plotting with spatial and geo data. Finally you will use all the concepts that you have learned in the previous chapters to create your very own Bokeh application from scratch. By the end of the book you will be able to create your very own Bokeh application. You will have gone through a step by step process that starts with understanding what Bokeh actually is and ends with building your very own Bokeh application filled with interactive and visually aesthetic plots.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Installing the Bokeh library

Bokeh has a few dependencies. In order to use Bokeh, ensure that the following packages are already installed:

  • NumPy
  • Jinja2
  • Six
  • Requests
  • Tornado >= 4.0
  • PyYaml
  • DateUtil

If you're using Python 2.7, ensure that you have all the afore mentioned packages along with:

  • Futures

Installing Bokeh using a Python distribution

If you have all of your Python packages installed and managed using a distribution such as Anaconda, you can install Bokeh using your Bash Terminal or a Windows Prompt using the following code:

conda install bokeh

You can also install Bokeh using PyPi for Python 2 via the following code:

pip install bokeh

You can install Bokeh using PyPi for Python 3 via the following code:

pip3 install bokeh

For the purposes of this book, all plots will be rendered using Bokeh Version 0.12.15. If you already have Bokeh installed and require an update, simply enter the following code in your terminal or shell:

sudo pip3 install bokeh --upgrade