User guide#

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 complete the steps described in Installing Bokeh.

Tip

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:

Introduction: Learn important foundational concepts about how Bokeh is organized.
Basic plotting: Learn how to create different kinds of plots using the simple but flexible bokeh.plotting interface.
Appearance: Learn how to customize the appearance of your plots.
Topic guides: Learn how to apply Bokeh’s capabilities to specialized data and use-cases.
Interaction: Learn how to make your plots more interactive and with features such as plot tools, widgets, and callbacks.
Output options: Learn how to export, embed, and display Bokeh plots in different contexts.
Bokeh server: Learn how to use the Bokeh Server to build and publish complex data applications.
Advanced usage: Learn how to use Bokeh with other tools, extend Bokeh, or 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.