title: Matplotlib Plotting using AWS-EMR jupyter notebook
body: <p>I am attempting to plot data using Matplotlib within a jupyter notebook on an AWS-EMR instance. Matplotlib must be installed via a bootstrap action at instance start-up, which I have done successfully. I have also successfully installed Pandas in this way (and used it for various things in my notebook). The typical <code>%matplotlib inline</code> does not work. (In fact, it appears that NO magic commands work on AWS-EMR notebooks. I suspect AWS has disabled these or it has something to do with the notebooks being "serverless.") </p>
  
  <p>I have tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>installing matplotlib==2.0.2 and using magic command <code>%matplotlib inline</code> (as mentioned above, magic commands seem not to work at all)</p></li>
  <li><p>installing matplotlib==1.5, installing ipympl, and using <code>import ipympl</code>. I don't receive errors using this method when trying to <code>.show()</code> a plot, but neither does a plot show up. The cell runs in the notebook with no plot appearing. As far as I can tell, <code>.show()</code> does nothing.</p></li>
  </ul>