{"id":1535,"date":"2024-04-15T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:36:14","slug":"interactive-plotting-backend-for-model-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/interactive-plotting-backend-for-model-diagnostics\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Plotting Backend for Model-Diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With its newest release 1.1.0<\/a>, the Python package model-diagnostics<\/a> got the concept of a plotting backend<\/em>. Before this release, all plots were constructed with matplotlib<\/a>. This is still the default. But additionally, the user can now select plotly<\/a>, if it is installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 2 ways to specify the plotting backend explicitly<\/p>\n\n\n

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Setting the plotting backend via global configuation<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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from model_diagnostics import set_config\n\nset_config(plot_backend=\"plotly\")<\/pre><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n
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Setting the plotting backend via a context manager<\/p>\n\t\t\t
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from model_diagnostics import config_context\nfrom model_diagnostics.calibration import plot_bias\n\nwith config_context(plot_backend=\"plotly\"):\n    plot_bias(...)<\/pre><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
The context manager has precedence over the global setting. Here is an example of an interactive reliability diagram backed by plotly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
import numpy as np\nfrom model_diagnostics.calibration import plot_reliability_diagram\nfrom model_diagnostics import set_config\n\nset_config(plot_backend="plotly")\n\nx = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100)\ny_obs = np.cos(x)\n# A poor linear interpolation through extrema as predictions. \ny_pred = np.interp(x, [0, np.pi, 2 * np.pi], [1, -1, 1])\nax = plot_reliability_diagram(y_obs=y_obs, y_pred=y_pred)<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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If you wonder why this graph is not interactive despite promised to be, here is why: While this graph renders nicely in a juper lab notebook, for instance, this website is built with wordpress and I was simply unable to figure out a way to get the html of the graph rendered properly\u2014without wordpress crashing. I you know a way, please contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Code above as notebook: https:\/\/github.com\/lorentzenchr\/notebooks\/blob\/master\/blogposts\/2024-04-15%20reliability_plot_plotly.ipynb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With its newest release 1.1.0, the Python package model-diagnostics got the concept of a plotting backend. Before this release, all plots were constructed with matplotlib. This is still the default. But additionally, the user can now select plotly, if it is installed. There are 2 ways to specify the plotting backend explicitly The context manager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Christian Lorentzen","author_link":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/author\/christian\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorentzen.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}