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Bloomberg built bqplot, an interactive plotting library for Jupyter

Sylvain Corlay · Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Feb 3, 2017 · at 15:30

Sylvain Corlay, quantitative researcher at Bloomberg, presents Bloomberg's contributions to the open-source Jupyter ecosystem.

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“So at Bloomberg, we built this library called bqplot, which is an interactive plotting library for Jupyter.”

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Bloomberg developed bqplot, an interactive plotting library for Project Jupyter.

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Assessment

Public repository records and official Bloomberg press releases confirm that Bloomberg's Quantitative Research team created and developed bqplot as an open-source interactive plotting library for Project Jupyter, initial open-sourcing occurring in October 2015 under github.com/bloomberg/bqplot.

In October 2015, Bloomberg publicly open-sourced bqplot under the Apache-2.0 license at github.com/bloomberg/bqplot.
Bloomberg LP official announcements confirm bqplot was developed by its Quantitative Research team as an interactive 2D plotting library for Jupyter notebooks.

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[1] bloomberg.com [2] anaconda.org [3] analyticsvidhya.com [4] reddit.com [5] readthedocs.io [6] bloomberg.com

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