How do I work with images in Bokeh (Python)

Question

For example you can plot an image in matplotlib using this code:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img=mpimg.imread('image.png')
plt.imshow(img)

Is something like this possible with Bokeh(0.10)?

Answer 1

You can use the ImageURL glyph (image_url plot method)to load images locally or from the web.

from bokeh.plotting import figure, show, output_file

output_file('image.html')

p = figure(x_range=(0,1), y_range=(0,1))
p.image_url(url=['tree.png'], x=0, y=1, w=0.8, h=0.6)
## could also leave out keywords
# p.image_url(['tree.png'], 0, 1, 0.8, h=0.6)  
show(p)

One gotcha - if you graph only an image (and no other data), you'll have to explicitly set the plot ranges.

Here's the docs:

http://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/reference/models/glyphs.html#bokeh.models.glyphs.ImageURL