My goal here is create the same interactive plot using a variety of different plotting packages in Python in order to test and compare the various options that other people have developed. I'm looking for a plotting package that allows me to:
- create a plot of COVID-19 cases vs. time (while displaying the date correctly),
- zoom and pan on the plot,
- create customizable tooltips to show the data values when the mouse hovers over the plot,
- create a dropdown menu to choose the country,
- create a set of buttons to choose which columns I want to plot (for a given country), and
- export directly to a .html file for use on a personal website (without needing any other service).
After scouring the internet for the most popular plotting packages, I've decided to test this set of tools:
Please see compareInteractives.ipynb for the code.
Live examples of the Bokeh and Plotly versions (others are too large for GitHub = Altair & mpld3, or less interesting = pygal).