Introduction

Bokeh is an interactive visualization library focused on modern browsers and the web. Other than Matplotlib or geoplotlib, the plots and visualizations we are going to create in this chapter will be based on JavaScript widgets. Bokeh allows us to create visually appealing plots and graphs nearly out of the box without much styling. In addition to that, it helps us construct performant interactive dashboards based on large static datasets or even streaming data.

Bokeh has been around since 2013, with version 1.4.0 being released in November 2019. It targets modern web browsers to present interactive visualizations to users rather than static images. The following are some of the features of Bokeh:

• Simple visualizations: Through its different interfaces, it targets users of many skill levels, providing an API for quick and straightforward visualizations as well as more complex and extremely customizable ones.
• Excellent animated visualizations: It provides...