using MultiSelect widget to hide and show lines in bokeh

Question

I\'m working with four sets of data, each of them have several number of time series. i\'m using bokeh for plotting all of them together, the result looks like this:

Answer 1

Support for doing exactly that (using a MultiSelect widget to hide/show lines) was just added in version 0.12.1 in this PR: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/4868

There's an example here (copied below): https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/examples/plotting/file/line_on_off.py

""" Example demonstrating turning lines on and off - with JS only

"""

import numpy as np

from bokeh.io import output_file, show
from bokeh.layouts import row
from bokeh.palettes import Viridis3
from bokeh.plotting import figure
from bokeh.models import CheckboxGroup, CustomJS

output_file("line_on_off.html", title="line_on_off.py example")

code = """
    if (0 in checkbox.active) {
        l0.visible = true
    } else {
        l0.visible = false
    }
    if (1 in checkbox.active) {
        l1.visible = true
    } else {
        l1.visible = false
    }
    if (2 in checkbox.active) {
        l2.visible = true
    } else {
        l2.visible = false
    }
"""

p = figure()
props = dict(line_width=4, line_alpha=0.7)
x = np.linspace(0, 4 * np.pi, 100)
l0 = p.line(x, np.sin(x), color=Viridis3[0], legend="Line 0", **props)
l1 = p.line(x, 4 * np.cos(x), color=Viridis3[1], legend="Line 1", **props)
l2 = p.line(x, np.tan(x), color=Viridis3[2], legend="Line 2", **props)

callback = CustomJS(code=code, args={})
checkbox = CheckboxGroup(labels=["Line 0", "Line 1", "Line 2"], active=[0, 1, 2], callback=callback, width=100)
callback.args = dict(l0=l0, l1=l1, l2=l2, checkbox=checkbox)

layout = row(checkbox, p)
show(layout)