How to do a scatter plot with Matplotlib

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Here is the simplest method to do a scatter plot.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

# We create our dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(index=range(0,10), data={"col1" : range(0,10)})

fig, axes = plt.subplots(1,1, figsize=(8,6))

# We do a scatter plot on the axes
axes.scatter(df.index, df["col1"])

# Fixing the layout to fit the size
fig.tight_layout()

# Showing the plot
plt.show()
The method using matplotlib

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