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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Discrete scatter?","articleBody":"Hey.\nSo I briefly talked with @tacaswell about this. I mostly use scatter to show a discrete third variable via color (say I plot weight vs height and want to color by gender). The current scatter is not entirely equipped for this, because it doesn't really allow me to create the legend that I want, and I doesn't allow me to use cyclers on the symbols or color.\nWhat I want can be relatively trivially implemented as a for-loop over the unique values of the discrete variable, and calling plot once for each.\nI use this A LOT, and other data sciency folks, too, I think, so it would be nice to have a one-liner for this, i.e. implement a function that does that for you.\n\nMy question is:\nShould this go into matplotlib or somewhere else?\nIf it should go into matplotlib, should it go into scatter or into a new function?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/amueller","@type":"Person","name":"amueller"},"datePublished":"2016-07-19T19:37:11.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":14},"url":"https://github.com/6802/matplotlib/issues/6802"}