Matplotlib: interactive plot on a web server
django, matplotlib, python, web-applications
Solution
You can use MPLD3 to export your existing matplotlib stuff to browser. Matplotlib itself is very powerful, albeit, I agree the documentation is not very extensive. I've learned it just by trying stuff out and finding examples on the net. 'matplotlib example X' where X is somewhat about what you are trying to plot find suprising amount of code on the net.
Problem
I'm currently using Open Flash Chart 2 on my django website, but I find it insufficiently customizable. (It's great when you want the usual barcharts, piecharts, but what about homemade shapes...). Although it's open source, I don't feel like diving in the Flex code. I'm thinking a lot about matplotlib but the documentation is rather poor on web application developpment. Does anybody uses matplotlib in his web app? I would appreciate links on those web sites to figure out what can be achieved. Thanks