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How can I implement live plotting of multiple plots on one single page

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dekrion
dekrionJan 12, 2017   #1

My solution for live stock price plotting:

  • bokeh sever running

  • start page based on MultiPlot class (see below)

  • Plot class (see below)

On the start page the user can add a Plot for each stock by selecting it from a list.

Multiplot class has:

  • self.div = Div(text = “”, width = 1200, height = 0) where all plots are added

  • Dropdown with stock list (to select by the user)

  • Plot list for holding added plots = Plot objects, instantiated with: plot = Plot(params)

  • Add plot method:

    rootLayout = curdoc().get_model_by_name(self.plot_container)

    listOfSubLayouts = rootLayout.children

    listOfSubLayouts.append(plot.get_figure())

  • init method with:

    mainLayout = column(row(self.div, name = “Multiple Plots Container”))

    curdoc().add_root(mainLayout)

    curdoc().add_periodic_callback(self.update, 1000)

    session = push_session(curdoc())

    session.show()

    session.loop_until_closed()

  • update method with:

    for iter in self.plots:

    self.plots[iter].update(stock_data)

Plot class has:

  • self.plot_main = Figure()

  • source_lines = ColumnDataSource(data_source_dict)

  • self.lines = self.plot_main.line(params, source = self.source_lines)

  • update method with self.source_lines.stream(new_source_data)

What I am getting are two identical plots (see attached image) with a saw pattern. The points (bullets) match the data. The problem is that the points are not being connected with each other with lines but always go to point 0 there between

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

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dekrion
dekrionJan 18, 2017   #2

Hi Bryan,

I think I made my question too complicated because no one answers…

I noticed that the plot data is being mixed when having 2 live-plots on the same page and when using stream method to one bokeh server.

Could you confirm that one bokeh server can handle only one live-plot?

Or how many live-plots can a single bokeh server handle?

With one plot all works fine. When I add another plot the drawing looks liek in the screenshot above.

Thanks.

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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 10:10:36 PM UTC+1, dek...@gmail.com wrote:

My solution for live stock price plotting:

  • bokeh sever running
  • start page based on MultiPlot class (see below)
  • Plot class (see below)

On the start page the user can add a Plot for each stock by selecting it from a list.

Multiplot class has:

  • self.div = Div(text = “”, width = 1200, height = 0) where all plots are added
  • Dropdown with stock list (to select by the user)
  • Plot list for holding added plots = Plot objects, instantiated with: plot = Plot(params)
  • Add plot method:

rootLayout = curdoc().get_model_by_name(self.plot_container)

listOfSubLayouts = rootLayout.children

listOfSubLayouts.append(plot.get_figure())

  • init method with:

mainLayout = column(row(self.div, name = “Multiple Plots Container”))

curdoc().add_root(mainLayout)

curdoc().add_periodic_callback(self.update, 1000)

session = push_session(curdoc())

session.show()

session.loop_until_closed()

  • update method with:

for iter in self.plots:

  self.plots[iter].update(stock_data)

Plot class has:

  • self.plot_main = Figure()
  • source_lines = ColumnDataSource(data_source_dict)
  • self.lines = self.plot_main.line(params, source = self.source_lines)
  • update method with self.source_lines.stream(new_source_data)

What I am getting are two identical plots (see attached image) with a saw pattern. The points (bullets) match the data. The problem is that the points are not being connected with each other with lines but always go to point 0 there between

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

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dekrion
dekrionJul 19, 2017   #3

I managed to get it work properly by having a unique name for the data_source dictionary per plot

exec(“self.source_” + data[‘name’] + " = ColumnDataSource({‘time’: , ‘price’: })")
self.plot_main = figure(title = data[‘name’], x_axis_type = “datetime”)
self.lines = self.plot_main.line(x = ‘time’, y = ‘price’, source = eval(“self.source_” + data[‘name’]))

``

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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 10:10:36 PM UTC+1, Tony Halik wrote:

My solution for live stock price plotting:

  • bokeh sever running
  • start page based on MultiPlot class (see below)
  • Plot class (see below)

On the start page the user can add a Plot for each stock by selecting it from a list.

Multiplot class has:

  • self.div = Div(text = “”, width = 1200, height = 0) where all plots are added
  • Dropdown with stock list (to select by the user)
  • Plot list for holding added plots = Plot objects, instantiated with: plot = Plot(params)
  • Add plot method:

rootLayout = curdoc().get_model_by_name(self.plot_container)

listOfSubLayouts = rootLayout.children

listOfSubLayouts.append(plot.get_figure())

  • init method with:

mainLayout = column(row(self.div, name = “Multiple Plots Container”))

curdoc().add_root(mainLayout)

curdoc().add_periodic_callback(self.update, 1000)

session = push_session(curdoc())

session.show()

session.loop_until_closed()

  • update method with:

for iter in self.plots:

  self.plots[iter].update(stock_data)

Plot class has:

  • self.plot_main = Figure()
  • source_lines = ColumnDataSource(data_source_dict)
  • self.lines = self.plot_main.line(params, source = self.source_lines)
  • update method with self.source_lines.stream(new_source_data)

What I am getting are two identical plots (see attached image) with a saw pattern. The points (bullets) match the data. The problem is that the points are not being connected with each other with lines but always go to point 0 there between

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

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