
If you give labels to an empty figure, part of them will show up in the top left corner of the canvas until something is actually plotted.
from bokeh.io import show
from bokeh.plotting import figure
fig = figure()
fig.xaxis.axis_label = “xaxis label”
fig.yaxis.axis_label = “yaxis label”
show(fig)
``
I think it’s just since 0.12.7

