create scatter plot matplotlib code example

Example 1: how to plot a scatter plot in matplotlib

# Import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Set plot space as inline for inline plots and qt for external plots
%matplotlib inline


# Set the figure size in inches
plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))

plt.scatter(x, y, label = "label_name" )

# Set x and y axes labels
plt.xlabel('X Values')
plt.ylabel('Y Values')

plt.title('Scatter Title')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

Example 2: how to do scatter plot in pyplot

import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Create data
N = 500x = np.random.rand(N)
y = np.random.rand(N)
colors = (0,0,0)
area = np.pi*3
# Plot
plt.scatter(x, y, s=area, c=colors, alpha=0.5)
plt.title('Scatter plot pythonspot.com')
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y')
plt.show()