Allow displaying mesa visualizations inline in jupyter notebooks

[smacleod]

It would be nice to run the Model visualizations inside of a notebook.

[jackiekazil]

Last update on this -- Original was #256, then it was updated some in #469.

[guy1ziv2]

Any progress on this? I am trying to use Mesa on Calaboratory as it is easy for undergraduate teaching (clean VM with python without any fuss). I can easily run Mesa examples, except anything related to visualization...

[dmasad]

Unfortunately this line of work seems to have stalled out somewhat.

One option you might want to check out is HoloViews, which enables more interactive visualizations in the notebook. The HoloViews team put together a nice example of Mesa + HoloViews a few years ago (https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/jlstevens/9c7835e4e21c5d844ded) -- I think the API has changed a bit since then, but that might help get you started.

[rht]

Solved by projectmesa/mesa-examples#44. It's not yet in core Mesa because it's still experimental. But installation guide is added in projectmesa/mesa-examples#45.