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.

import pandas as pd

# We read a sample dataset from the web.
df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwaskom/'\
                 'seaborn-data/master/iris.csv')

df.plot(kind="scatter", x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length")

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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