Beaker Notebook vs. Bokeh vs. Focos vs. Matplotlib Comparison Chart

BeakerX is a collection of kernels and extensions to the Jupyter interactive computing environment. It provides JVM support, Spark cluster support, polyglot programming, interactive plots, tables, forms, publishing, and more. All of BeakerX’s JVM languages plus Python and JavaScript have APIs for interactive time-series, scatter plots, histograms, heatmaps, and treemaps. The widgets remain interactive in both notebooks saved to disk, and notebooks published to the web. They include unique features for handling many points, nanosecond resolution, zooming, and exporting. BeakerX’s table widget automatically recognizes pandas data frames and allows you to search, sort, drag, filter, format, select, graph, hide, pin, and export to CSV or clipboard. This makes connecting to spreadsheets quickly and easy. BeakerX has a Spark magic with GUIs for configuration, status, progress, and interrupt of Spark jobs. You can either use the GUI or create your own SparkSession with code.

Focos brings DSLR-like photography to your iPhone with big aperture and real bokeh effect, which most photographers have always desired. Portrait photo with depth data allows you to focus after shooting like hacker technology. Various diaphragms generate different bokeh spot effects. Professional options simulate the pro lens such as creamy, bilinear, swirl and so on. Creamy is the characteristic of good lens and makes the edge of bokeh spot softer. Bilinear is the shortcoming of some lens but can stoke spot. Swirly lens highlights the center object surrounded by swirly bokeh. With lighting tool, you can check the portrait picture in true 3D space, add lights and adjust color, brightness and so on and so forth. It is more powerful and flexible than portrait lighting which Apple provides.