How to do a scatter plot with Pandas using Python
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Scatter plots are extremely useful when you want to compare multiple features.
Especially when you want to check whether there is some kind of correlation between those variables.
Here is a super simple example of a scatter plot, using the Pandas library.
As we can see we are using the DataFrame.plot() method and passing a kind="scatter" argument.
In this example, we are plotting the sepal_width versus the sepal_length column.
Here is the result.
Here you are! You now know how to do a scatter plot with Pandas using Python.
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If you want to know more about how to add labels, plot different types of plots, etc... check out the other articles I wrote on the topic, just here :
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