Changing ticks mark period in Holoviews heatmap

Question

I have the following heatmap made by Holoviews. I need to change x ticks to change the period of x ticks. [0,2,4,...] instead of [0,1,2,3,4,..]

data = [(i, j,  i*j) for i in range(10) for j in range(10)]
hv.HeatMap(data)

Change from this graph

To this graph

Answer 1

With HoloViews >= 1.13, you can now use keyword .opts(xticks) and .opts(yticks) for setting continuous (non-categorical) ranges.

Example:

data = [(i, j,  i*j) for i in range(10) for j in range(10)]

hv.HeatMap(data).opts(xticks=[0, 3, 6, 9], yticks=[0, 5, 9])

Resulting plot:

Answer 2

It seems that bokeh doesn't provide such function. However you can change the doFormat function of xaxis.formatter before draw the plot.

After run the following cell:

from bokeh.models import CustomJS
import holoviews as hv
hv.extension("bokeh")

def change_formatter(p, o):
    fig = p.handles["plot"]

    def callback(fig=fig):
        def do_format(t, e):
            return [label if i % 2 == 0 else "" for i, label in enumerate(t)]

        fig.renderers[0].formatter.doFormat = do_format    
    fig.js_on_change("inner_width", CustomJS.from_py_func(callback))

%opts HeatMap [finalize_hooks=[change_formatter]]

plot the HeatMap:

data = [(i, j,  i*j) for i in range(10) for j in range(10)]
hv.HeatMap(data)    

here is the output: