As this is a demo notebook, why not :) In general I think people are more interested by the end result, but enjoy seeing that the process is “making progress” when they have lots of data — maybe we could have something like a progress bar while this is running? I'm not sure how you know that it has stopped.
@jonhelfman It's already set though? The tickSpacing for x and y defaults to different values (80 and 35) which can give the impression of a non-square ratio.