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PowerShell ScottPlot

Uses Polyglot Interactive Notebooks to demonstrate the capabilities of ScottPlot via PowerShell.

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This walks through creating data visualizations with PowerShell and ScottPlot in the interactive notebook rendering visualizations inline.

ScottPlot

Is a free and open-source plotting library for .NET that makes it easy to interactively display large datasets.

How to run

• Follow these instructions to setup VS Code and the Polyglot Interactive Notebooks extension
• Clone the repo locally
• Finally, Open the ScottPlot.ipynb file in VS Code

Summary

There are two helper PowerShell scripts.

• ScottPlotHelper.ps1

  • Loads the ScottPlot.dll and psgraphNB.ps1
  • Has the Show-ScottPlotInNotebook function
    • Show-ScottPlotInNotebook $plt "$pwd\test.png"
    • Takes a ScottPlot plot, and name of the image file to generate
    • Generates the image file
    • Calls the Show-ImageInNotebook function from psgraphNB.ps1
    • Then removes the image file

• PSGraphNB.ps1

  • Has the Show-ImageInNotebook function
    • Show-ImageInNotebook "$pwd\test.png"
    • Takes the name of the image file to display
    • Displays the image in the output cell of the notebook

What's in the notebook

A simple way to share Polyglot Notebooks

Check out the rendered notebook and charts here in nbviewer.

Here's some of what you can do