Mastering IPython 4.0

Python-nvd3

Python-nvd3 is a wrapper around the NVD3 library. NVD3 is itself a layer on top of the D3.js library. This is from the NVD3 homepage (http://nvd3.org/):

"This project is an attempt to build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js without taking away the power that d3.js gives you."

Starting Python-nvd3

Python-nvd3 can be installed with the usual pip install command:

pip install python-nvd3

After this, one can check to make sure that it is available:

In [3]: import nvd3
loaded nvd3 IPython extension
run nvd3.ipynb.initialize_javascript() to set up the notebook
help(nvd3.ipynb.initialize_javascript) for options

In [4]: nvd3.__version__
Out[4]: '0.14.2'

An initial graph

The following code calls some basic Python-nvd3 libraries to ...