Jake Vanderplass has a very thought-provoking essay about the future of visualization in Python. It's an exciting time for visualization in Python with so many new options exploding onto the scene, and Jake has provided a nice summary. However, I don't think it presents a very current view of matplotlib …

UPDATE: I am now sharing my code in the mdboom/mpl_browser_experiments github repository, rather than in a gist.

It's occurred to me recently that in my previous blog posts Part II and Part I, I was going about the problem all wrong. Getting the plotting logic running in the browser …

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Admittedly, they haven't supported Linux well for some time …