plot scatter plot in pandas 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: scatter plot of a dataframe in python

>>> ax2 = df.plot.scatter(x='length',
...                       y='width',
...                       c='species',
...                       colormap='viridis')