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Matplotlib scatter plots - Python Tutorial
From the course: Python Functions for Data Science
Matplotlib scatter plots
- [Instructor] Scatter plots are commonly used when visualizing data. In this video, I will show you how to create a scatter plot using Matplotlib. Let's say I have a pandas DataFrame containing the sales in dollars of an ice cream truck for 14 days and the temperature in Fahrenheit for each day as shown here. Now, say I want to create a scatter plot of this data. I can use the scatter function from the pyplot submodule of Matplotlib. It would look like this. First, I'll call the scatter function and pass in the temp column and the ice cream truck sale column from the sales DataFrame in that order. Next, I'll call the xlabel function to set the label of the x-axis. Then, I'll call the ylabel function to set the label of the y-axis. Next, I'll call the title function to set the title of the plot. Lastly, I'll call the show function to make sure that the plot gets displayed. That's it. Now that you've seen how…
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