Comment by dasmith88 for I am not sure how exactly you want to do this but let me know whether this is what you want. User can change the array and unfocus from the input box to update.@interact def int_plot(str1 = input_box('[[1,2],[3,5],[4,2]]',type = str, label='array 1: ')): array1=eval(str1) scatter_plot(array1).show()