This example shows how to create a custom TickFormatter class that displays the first tick of every axis as-is, and every subsequent tick as an offset from the first. Pan and zoom the plot below and watch the x-axis.
TickFormatter
from bokeh.io import show from bokeh.models import TickFormatter from bokeh.plotting import figure from bokeh.util.compiler import TypeScript TS_CODE = """ import {TickFormatter} from "models/formatters/tick_formatter" export class MyFormatter extends TickFormatter { // TickFormatters should implement this method, which accepts a list // of numbers (ticks) and returns a list of strings doFormat(ticks: string[] | number[]) { // format the first tick as-is const formatted = [`${ticks[0]}`] for (let i = 1, len = ticks.length; i < len; i++) { formatted.push(`+${(Number(ticks[i]) - Number(ticks[0])).toPrecision(2)}`) } return formatted } } """ class MyFormatter(TickFormatter): __implementation__ = TypeScript(TS_CODE) p = figure() p.circle([1, 2, 3, 4, 6], [5, 7, 3, 2, 4], size=20) p.xaxis.formatter = MyFormatter() show(p)