Vizgpm not loading #80
Description
Summary
I have not been able use VizGPM graphic elements recently in any bayeslite/iventure notebook. I tried notebooks from a few different machines, on AWS and locally.
Reproducing the issue
The issue can be reproduced by running https://github.com/probcomp/notebook/blob/master/tutorials/gapminder-exploratory.ipynb from our tutorial notebook set. The following occurs:
- The code
%vizgpm inline(in cell 2) produces a blank output rather than a message reporting that VizGPM has loaded. - The interactive VizGPM graphics come up blank when they are called after that.
Why it may be occurring
I wonder if there is a connection issue to the probcomp2 server required in the following line of code. I wonder if this is a result of a restriction on connections to CSAIL machines from off of campus since MIT updated its security policies:
Line 17 in d8e3040
If so, then a solution may be to make the same VisGPM library available from another server or change the connection properties of probcomp2.csail.mit.edu. Another part of the solution may be to raise a python Error if the VizGPM library does not load, so that our tutorial notebooks do not fail silently.