How do I make matplotlib work in AWS EMR Jupyter notebook?

Question

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Matplotlib Plotting using AWS-EMR jupyter notebook

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Answer 1

As you mentioned, matplotlib is not installed on the EMR cluster, therefore such error will occur:

However, it is actually available in the managed Jupyter notebook instance (the docker container). Using the %%local magic will allow you to run the cell locally: