Saturday, 25 May 2019

How do I make matplotlib work in AWS EMR Jupyter notebook?

This is very close to this question, but I have added a few details specific to my question:

Matplotlib Plotting using AWS-EMR jupyter notebook

I would like to find a way to use matplotlib inside my Jupyter notebook. Here is the code-snippet in error, it's fairly simple:

notebook

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("agg")
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4])
plt.show()

I chose this snippet because this line alone fails as it tries to use TKinter (which is not installed on an AWS EMR cluster):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

When I run the full notebook snippet, the result is no runtime error but also nothing happens (no graph is shown.) My understanding on one way this can work is by adding either of the following snips:

pyspark magic notation

%matplotlib inline

results

unknown magic command 'matplotlib'
UnknownMagic: unknown magic command 'matplotlib'

IPython explicit magic call

from IPython import get_ipython
get_ipython().run_line_magic('matplotlib', 'inline')

results

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'run_line_magic'
Traceback (most recent call last):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'run_line_magic'


to my notebook which invokes a spark magic command which inlines matplotlib plots (at least that's my interpretation.) I have tried both of these after using a bootstrap action:

EMR bootstrap

sudo pip install matplotlib
sudo pip install ipython

Even with these added, I still get an error that there is no magic for matplotlib. So my question is definitely:

Question

How do I make matplotlib work in an AWS EMR Jupyter notebook?

(Or how do I view graphs and plot images in AWS EMR Jupyter notebook?)



from How do I make matplotlib work in AWS EMR Jupyter notebook?

2 comments:

  1. Same problem here :)
    https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=311402&tstart=0

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  2. Why there is a loop between the two links??

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