Kepler.gl: [Bug][Jupyter Widget] Is there a way to use kepler in colab?

[mcnuttandrew]

Describe the bug
I'd like to be able to use kepler in the context of google colab notebooks. It appears to be not currently possible. Following the steps in the user guide doesn't generate a map, instead only showing a link to the user guide.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Open a new google colab notebook, try to make a map, such as with the code

from keplergl import KeplerGl
map_1 = KeplerGl()
map_1

Which should yield a map, but instead gives:

User Guide: https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl/blob/master/docs/keplergl-jupyter/user-guide.md

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Python version: python3
  
  
  
  • google colab
  
  
• keplergl Widget version 0.1.2

[heshan0131]

Hi Andrew, long time no see. Can you take a screenshot of any issue message you have in the console?

[mcnuttandrew]

Hey Shan! Nice to hear from you.
Unfortunately there aren't any errors, it just points to the user guide and doesn't show the map (see above screenshot)

[heshan0131]

what about js console

[mcnuttandrew]

Oh yeah i totally forgot notebooks have a js console doh

[wangrui6]

Have you guys figured out how to use Kepler.gl on Colab? Got the same issue with andrew.

[PhilipAD]

Have you guys figured out how to use Kepler.gl on Colab? Got the same issue with andrew.

Same^^

[ibgreen]

kepler's approach is slightly different so the following may not fully apply, however in case it may be helpful:

pydeck has solved "one way" rendering in colab: https://github.com/uber/deck.gl/pull/4337

Note that interactivity is not currently possible, see the linked colab issue in that ticket (this limitation that appears related to colab's stricter security model and seems to affect many packages).

[ibgreen]

@ajduberstein

[eduardomatheusfigueira]

i still have the same problem :(

[KhaledAdrani1997]

Same problem here and I did not find something helpful in that guide.

from keplergl import KeplerGl
map1=KeplerGl(height=500)
map1

User Guide: https://docs.kepler.gl/docs/keplergl-jupyter