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Great software - any chance of a colourbar for image plots?

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Marcus_Donnelly
Marcus_Donnelly

I recently started using Bokeh and I’m very impressed. It’s the first time I’ve come across something that I think allows proper scientific web apps to be developed.

A suggestion for future versions would be an automatic colourbar for image plots, as knowing the relationship between colours and values is essential for scientific plots. I just posted a workaround to this StackExchange item building on work done by others, but it would be nice to have this in core Bokeh functionality if possible.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

Marcus.

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Sarah_Bird1
Sarah_Bird1

Thanks for the kind words Marcus.

It's certainly high on the todo list, I was hoping to get time to work
on it at the end of last year. There seem to be lots of things high on
the todo list at the moment!

Sincerely,

Sarah Bird

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On 1/17/16 7:59 AM, Marcus Donnelly wrote:

I recently started using Bokeh and I'm very impressed. It's the first
time I've come across something that I think allows proper scientific
web apps to be developed.

A suggestion for future versions would be an automatic colourbar for
image plots, as knowing the relationship between colours and values is
essential for scientific plots. I just posted a workaround to this
<visualization - Can I plot a colorbar for a bokeh heatmap? - Stack Overflow;
StackExchange item building on work done by others, but it would be nice
to have this in core Bokeh functionality if possible.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

Marcus.

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