It seems that the new version of plotly addresses most of my annoyances, but I've yet to play with it.
I really like Bokeh. It's still quite young (0.13) and some things aren't quite there yet. For general plotting, pretty much everything you need is already there. The documentation is excellent.
Plotly is very powerful, but if you have a use-case that's beyond the examples it can be hard to find. I ran into some annoying issues - for example you can't embed JSON metadata into a plot before sending to the browser because the parser can't deal with unexpected keys.
I also don't (didn't?) like how everything in Plotly is done via dictionaries and (for the newcomer, somewhat abstract) graph objects. Graph object definitions in plotly get very busy and long if you need to do anything complicated. The new imperative options seem to have fixed this.
Bokeh feels much more similar to Matplotlib and I think produces far more readable code.
I really like Bokeh. It's still quite young (0.13) and some things aren't quite there yet. For general plotting, pretty much everything you need is already there. The documentation is excellent.
Plotly is very powerful, but if you have a use-case that's beyond the examples it can be hard to find. I ran into some annoying issues - for example you can't embed JSON metadata into a plot before sending to the browser because the parser can't deal with unexpected keys.
I also don't (didn't?) like how everything in Plotly is done via dictionaries and (for the newcomer, somewhat abstract) graph objects. Graph object definitions in plotly get very busy and long if you need to do anything complicated. The new imperative options seem to have fixed this.
Bokeh feels much more similar to Matplotlib and I think produces far more readable code.