Oct 15, 2012 · I have been looking for a way to be able to select which series are visible on a plot, after a plot is created. I need this as i often have plots with many series. they are too many to plot at the same time, and i need to quickly and interactively select which series are visible.

You can embed Matplotlib directly into a user interface application by following the embedding_in_SOMEGUI.py examples here. Currently Matplotlib supports PyQt/PySide, PyGObject, Tkinter, and wxPython.

Feb 11, 2019 · I would just like to be able to select any subset from a pandas dataframe to make a plot like below by using a widget like this: My attempts: The widgets.SelectMultiple() widget is briefly described in the docs, and this section describes how you can interactively change values for series in a plot.

Interactivity can be invaluable when exploring plots. The pan/zoom and mouse-location tools built into the Matplotlib GUI windows are often sufficient, but you can also use the event system to build customized data exploration tools.

Feb 24, 2025 · Explore how to seamlessly integrate Matplotlib with GUI applications in Python through this comprehensive step-by-step guide.

Nov 7, 2016 · You can't do this in pure matplotlib, you'd need to use a gui framework such as tkinter or wxpython. Check out the wx.ComboBox example here wiki.wxpython.org/AnotherTutorial – Ed Smith

Matplotlib supports rich interactive figures by embedding figures into a GUI window. The basic interactions of panning and zooming in an Axes to inspect your data is "baked in" to Matplotlib. This is supported by a full mouse and keyboard event handling system that you can use to build sophisticated interactive graphs.

Jan 2, 2023 · I will show you how to create a simple modern-looking GUI to display a matplotlib scatterplot using a slider and custom input values.

There are 2 ways to use PySimpleGUI with Matplotlib. Both use the standard tkinter based Matplotlib. The simplest is when both the interactive Matplotlib window and a PySimpleGUI window are running at the same time.

Jun 10, 2020 · This post shows how to achieve the functionality locally with a quick makeshift matplotlib function and extend it in jupyter notebook. 1. Python Script with console output. Interactively selecting data points with the lasso tool. This examples plots a scatter plot. You can then select a few points by drawing.