Drawing Data With Glyphs

An empty figure isn’t all that exciting, so in this video you will explore glyphs: the building blocks of Bokeh visualizations. A glyph is a vectorized graphical shape or marker that is used to represent your data.

A Few Categories of Glyphs:

• Marker: Shapes like circles, diamonds, squares and triangles. Effective for scatter and bubble charts.
• Line: Single, step and multi-line shapes. For building line charts.
• Bar/Rectangle: Traditional or stacked bar (hbar) and column (vbar) charts as well as waterfall or gantt charts.

More examples can be found in the Bokeh gallery. After you create your figure, you are given access to a bevy of configurable glyph methods.

File: FirstGlyphs.py

# Bokeh Libraries
from bokeh.io import output_file
from bokeh.plotting import figure, show

# My x-y coordinate data
x = [1, 2, 1]
y = [1, 1, 2]

# Output the visualization to a static HTML file - first_glyphs.html
output_file('first_glyphs.html', title='First Glyphs')

# Create a figure with no toolbar and axis ranges [0, 3]
fig = figure(title='My Coordinates',
             plot_height=300, plot_width=300,
             x_range=(0, 3), y_range=(0, 3),
             toolbar_location=None)

# Draw the coordinate as circles
fig.circle(x=x, y=y, 
           color='green', size=10, alpha=0.5)

# Show plot 
show(fig)