In this user guide, you will find detailed descriptions and examples that describe many common tasks that you can accomplish with Bokeh. To get started with Bokeh, you should first completed the steps described in Installing Bokeh.
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See the First steps guides for quick tutorials that walk you through Bokeh’s basic functionalities and concepts. This is the easiest and quickest way to get going with Bokeh.
This user guide is arranged by topic:
Learn important foundational concepts about how Bokeh is organized.
Make different kinds of plots using the simple but flexible glyph methods from the bokeh.plotting interface.
Provide data or subsets of data for plots and tables and share data between plots.
Combine multiple plots and widgets into specified layouts.
Handle categorical data with a variety of different techniques such as bar charts, categorical heatmaps, visual dodging, and jitter.
Create network graph visualizations with configurable node and edge interactions.
Working with geographical data—Google Maps, GeoJSON, Tile Rendering.
Make interactive tools (like pan, zoom, select, and others) available on your plots.
Customize every visual aspect of Bokeh plots—axes, grids, labels, glyphs, and more.
Add informational annotations, such as labels, arrows, and legends to plots.
Create more sophisticated interactions including widgets or linked panning and selection.
Deploy the Bokeh Server to build and publish sophisticated data applications.
Integrate with the Jupyter ecosystem.
Learn how to export Bokeh layouts as PNGs and SVGs.
Embed static or server-based Bokeh plots and widgets into HTML documents in a variety of ways.
Use Bokeh’s capabilities from the command line with the bokeh command.
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Add new capability to Bokeh with custom user extensions.
Improve performance for large datasets by using WebGL.
Use Bokeh together with libraries such as Datashader and HoloViews.
Create plots in JavaScript by using BokehJS directly.
The user guide contains a lot of examples. They are as minimal as possible and usually focus on highlighting one functionality or concept each. You can copy and paste those examples into your own development environment. With only a handful of exceptions, you will need no external libraries to run the examples.