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Bokeh, Matplotlib or Plotly?
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I'm currently learning flask and hoping to make a web app that will pull user-selected data from a MySQL database.
Graphing the data would be great, and I have just discovered Bokeh and Plotly, both of which have Python APIs. I am not familiar (yet) with Matplotlib.
Has anyone any experience of using any of these options (particularly within Flask)?
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matplotlib is fairly easy to work with, especially if you have any experience with matlab.
You get an image out using figure.savefig.You would likely need to create a new figure for each user or connection.
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None of the above. Rendering in the back-end is almost always a bad idea. Browsers are built to render content. By rendering images on your server, you're putting unnecessary load on your server, and sacrificing both interactivity and accessibility. Use http://chartjs.org/ instead.
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@Webmaster4o Looks great! I'll check it out.
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@chriswilson The advantage is that with a client-side library, you can do real-time animations, tooltips, and interaction. But you'll have to know a bit of JS to get through it (though JS isn't hard)
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@Webmaster4o I'm starting to learn JS now, so hopefully it won't be a problem!
