X-axis labels on Seaborn Plots in Bokeh

Question

I'm attempting to follow the violin plot example in bokeh, but am unable to add x-axis labels to my violins. According to the Seaborn documentation it looks like I should be able to add x-axis labels via the "names" argument, however, the following code does not add x-axis labels:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from bokeh import mpl
from bokeh.plotting import show

# generate some random data
data = 1 + np.random.randn(20, 6)

# Use Seaborn and Matplotlib normally
sns.violinplot(data, color="Set3", names=["kirk","spock","bones","scotty","uhura","sulu"])
plt.title("Seaborn violin plot in Bokeh")

# Convert to interactive Bokeh plot with one command
show(mpl.to_bokeh(name="violin"))

I believe that the issue is that I'm converting a figure from seaborn to matplotlib to bokeh, but I'm not sure at what level the x-axis labels go in.

I've confirmed that the labels are showing up in matplotlib before conversion to bokeh. I've also tried adding the labels to bokeh after conversion, but this results in a weird plot. I've created an issue for this problem with the bokeh developers here.

Answer 1

Since Bokeh 12.5 (April 2017), support for Matplotlib has been deprecated, so mpl.to_bokeh() is no longer available.