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Dynamically update plots in Jupyter lab
# source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52672859/5554394
from IPython.display import clear_output
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import collections
%matplotlib inline
def live_plot(data_dict, figsize=(7,5), title=''):
clear_output(wait=True)
plt.figure(figsize=figsize)
for label,data in data_dict.items():
plt.plot(data, label=label)
plt.title(title)
plt.grid(True)
plt.xlabel('epoch')
plt.legend(loc='center left') # the plot evolves to the right
plt.show();
# Then in a loop you populate a dictionary and you pass it to live_plot():
data = collections.defaultdict(list)
for i in range(100):
data['foo'].append(np.random.random())
data['bar'].append(np.random.random())
data['baz'].append(np.random.random())
live_plot(data)
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