in Ipython notebook / Jupyter, Pandas is not displaying the graph I try to plot

Question

I am trying to plot some data using pandas in Ipython Notebook, and while it gives me the object, it doesn\'t actually plot the graph itself. So it looks like this:

Answer 1

Note that --pylab is deprecated and has been removed from newer builds of IPython, The recommended way to enable inline plotting in the IPython Notebook is now to run:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

See this post from the ipython-dev mailing list for more details.