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:

In [7]:

pledge.Amount.plot()

Out[7]:

<matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot at 0x9397c6c>

The graph should follow after that, but it simply doesn’t appear. I have imported matplotlib, so that’s not the problem. Is there any other module I need to import?

Asked By: chrisfs

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Answers:

With your import matplotlib.pyplot as plt just add

plt.show()

and it will show all stored plots.

Answered By: eumiro

Edit:Pylab has been deprecated please see the current accepted answer

Ok, It seems the answer is to start ipython notebook with –pylab=inline.
so ipython notebook –pylab=inline
This has it do what I saw earlier and what I wanted it to do.
Sorry about the vague original question.

Answered By: chrisfs

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.

Answered By: Tal Yarkoni

start ipython with ipython notebook --pylab inline ,then graph will show inline.

Answered By: pigletfly

simple after importing the matplotlib you have execute one magic if you have started the ipython as like this 

ipython notebook 

%matplotlib inline

run this command everything will be shown perfectly

Answered By: Ankanna

All you need to do is to import matplotlib.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Answered By: the curious mind
import matplotlib as plt
%matplotlib as inline
Answered By: TrilochanYadav