Jupyter notebook canvas not interactive when using %matplotlib inline

Question

I have the following code. Without the line %matplotlib inline, jupyter notebook pops out an extra window to display the plot and it is interactive (the right bottom corner updates the x and y values as you move the mouse). With the line %matplotlib inline, the plot is not interactive.

Anything I can do to make it interactive within the notebook?

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from numpy.random import randn
%matplotlib inline

origins = ['China','Brazil','India','USA','Canada','UK','Germany',
    'Iraq','Chile','Mexico']


df = pd.DataFrame({'height': 
np.random.rand(10),'weight':np.random.rand(10),
              'origin':origins})

plt.figure()
plt.scatter(df['height'],df['weight'],picker=5)
plt.gca().set_ylabel('Weight')
plt.gca().set_xlabel('Height')

def onpick(event):
    origin = df.iloc[event.ind[0]]['origin']
    plt.gca().set_title('came from {}'.format(origin))

plt.gcf().canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event',onpick)
plt.show()

MSeifert · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-09 19:54:33Z

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You can use %matplotlib notebook instead of %matplotlib inline.

As explained in the IPython tutorial on plotting:

The matplotlib library also ships with %matplotlib notebook command that allows interactive figures if your environment allows it.

(Emphasis mine)

answered May 9, 2017 at 19:54

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