Plot horizontally in jupyter notebooks. source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21754976/

FlowLayoutGist.py

# source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21754976/
import numpy as np
from IPython.display import HTML
import io
import base64


class FlowLayout(object):
    ''' A class / object to display plots in a horizontal / flow layout below a cell '''
    def __init__(self):
        # string buffer for the HTML: initially some CSS; images to be appended
        self.sHtml =  """
        <style>
        .floating-box {
        display: inline-block;
        margin: 10px;
        border: 3px solid #888888;  
        }
        </style>
        """

    def add_plot(self, oAxes):
        ''' Saves a PNG representation of a Matplotlib Axes object '''
        Bio=io.BytesIO() # bytes buffer for the plot
        fig = oAxes.get_figure()
        fig.canvas.print_png(Bio) # make a png of the plot in the buffer

        # encode the bytes as string using base 64 
        sB64Img = base64.b64encode(Bio.getvalue()).decode()
        self.sHtml+= (
            '<div class="floating-box">'+ 
            '<img src="data:image/png;base64,{}\n">'.format(sB64Img)+
            '</div>')

    def PassHtmlToCell(self):
        ''' Final step - display the accumulated HTML '''
        display(HTML(self.sHtml))