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How do i get my interactive Holoviews graph to display in Visual Studio (without Jupyter)?

I'm mainly using Jupyter Notebook / Lab when using Holoviews for interactive plotting.
How do I make Visual Studio display my interactive graphs and panels, without using the Interactive Jupyter inside Visual Studio?

Solution

  • Easiest solution is to set bokeh as backend of the renderer and then use bokeh.render.show(). This will open your holoviews plot in the browser:

    hv.extension('bokeh')
from bokeh.plotting import show

show(hv.render(your_holoviews_plot))

    Full working example:

    # import libraries
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import hvplot.pandas
import holoviews as hv

# setting bokeh as backend
hv.extension('bokeh')

# going to use show() to open plot in browser
from bokeh.plotting import show

# create some sample data
data = np.random.normal(size=[50, 2])
df = pd.DataFrame(
    data=data,
    columns=['col1', 'col2'],
)

# using hvplot here to create a holoviews plot
# could have also just used holoviews itself
plot = df.hvplot(kind='scatter', x='col1', y='col2')

# use show() from bokeh
show(hv.render(plot))