Display multiple plots in one cell

[simonmandlik]

Hi, is there any way to display multiple plots in one cell? Say I have a clustering procedure in which, depending on the data, I can obtain 2-20 clusters and want to visualize all of them separately. In jupyter notebook, I would use something like this

for cluster in clusters
    @info cluster
    plot(cluster) |> display
end;

And it would give me the correct amount of plots each time. In jupyter, I assume it is best to create a separate cell for each cluster, which is really inconvenient because (i) there is a variable number of clusters and (ii) the amount of cells would get quickly out of hand. What is the recommended way to deal with this? Thanks!

[simonmandlik]

Using subplotting is not an option here, because I want to also print out some statistics with PrettyTables.jl to stdout

[rikhuijzer]

Have you tried returning a vector of plots?

[plot(cluster) for cluster in clusters]

(so don't end this with a semicolon ;)

[simonmandlik]

You are right, but what is the point of plotting thousands of plots? I am using interactive notebooks mainly for presenting or interactive manual data analysis. In such cases, the optimal amount of plots to look at before loosing attention / attention of audience is 2-20 as I have mentioned in the original question.

[rikhuijzer]

For what it's worth. This is Prof. Alan Edelman (MIT) showing images inside a vector: https://youtu.be/3zTO3LEY-cM?t=2899

[simonmandlik]

No doubts there are great uses of this. But the images in the lecture server a completely different purpose than what I'm trying to describe here

[icweaver]

I guess each plot could be placed in an info box, but I have to admit that the way it is currently laid out does make navigation a bit touchy:

let
    for i ∈ 1:10
        @info "Plot $i" plot(rand(10))
    end
end

example-2022-07-01_11.32.42.mp4

[holomorphism]

For the sake of appearance, I prefer to use HypertextLiteral.

using HypertextLiteral

# example (1)
let
	clusters = [rand(10) for _ in 1:2]
	
	plots = []
	for (i,cluster) in enumerate(clusters)
		info = htl"Plot: $i"
		p = plot(cluster; size=(500,150))
		push!(plots, htl"<div>$info</div><div>$p</div>")
	end
	
	htl"<h5>(1)</h5>$plots"
end

# example (2)
let
	clusters = [rand(10) for _ in 1:10]
	
	plots = []
	for (i,cluster) in enumerate(clusters)
		#info = htl"Plot: $i"
		p = plot(cluster; size=(300,200))
		push!(plots, p)
	end
	
	htl"<h5>(2)</h5><div style='white-space: nowrap;'>$plots</div>"
end