Bokeh

About Bokeh

Bokeh focuses on building interactive, web-ready plots, which can be a powerful tool for creating dynamic visualizations that can easily be embedded in web applications.

Key Features

• 1Interactive HTML charts rendered in the browser with pan, zoom, and hover
• 2Bokeh Server enables live streaming data dashboards with push updates
• 3Wide range of chart types: line, bar, scatter, heatmap, network graphs
• 4Widgets (sliders, dropdowns, buttons) for interactive filtering
• 5Embeds seamlessly into Jupyter notebooks and web applications

How Python Data Engineers Use Bokeh

Data engineers use Bokeh to build interactive monitoring dashboards for pipeline metrics and data quality KPIs. A Bokeh Server app connects directly to a database, refreshes charts on a timer, and serves a browser-based dashboard — giving stakeholders a live view of pipeline health without requiring a separate BI tool.