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I am using ipython notebook with pylab --inline

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
......
plt.figsize(14,8)
ax1=plt.subplot(311)
#data is a pandas data frame with timeseries stock data
# this plots the data
data.plot(ax=ax1)

This shows a plot of the stock data but its all displayed at once. I would like to display just subrange of dates and have a scrollbar to control what range How do I do it such that it works with the inline display of plots.

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You can't manipulate plots in inline-mode after they have been drawn. However, you can scale,zoom and resize plots in the interactive mode. Just start your notebook without the inline-option and all plots will be generated in an extra window with the functionality you asked for:

ipython notebook --pylab
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This popped a new window and displayed the same thing that I saw inline. It does have a list of buttons at the bottom of the window, one of which seems to be zoom/pan. I seem to be able to pan the plot in all the 4 directions and the axis shifts. But I can't seem to figure out how to zoom in/out of it to seem a smaller range of either axis. – Sarvi Shanmugham yesterday
To zoom you have to choose the double-array-button and right-click on the plot. But I guess you figured that out by yourself in the meantime. – ala yesterday
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You can't. Inline display is a static PNG.

If you want something like that you will have to use a Javascript plotting library for now. None that I know of will work out of the box with panda.

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