Remove past Matplotlib plots in the same cell in Jupyter Notebook involving interactive widgets

Question

this is just a small problem that has been bugging me for a while.

I have a pandas dataframe consisting of all continuous variables. I want to draw a scatter plot (u

Answer 1

You may add plt.show() at the end of your function. This replots the graph in the same cell instead of adding a new one.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from ipywidgets import interactive
%matplotlib inline

columns=['a','b','c']
data = np.cumsum(np.random.rand(10,3),axis=1)
df = pd.DataFrame(data,columns=columns)

def g(x,y):
    plt.scatter(df[x], df[y])
    plt.show()

interactive_plot = interactive(g, x=columns, y=columns)
interactive_plot