How to set the border color of the dots in matplotlib's scatterplots?

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Is it possible to set the color of the borders of the dots that are generated via the Axes.scatter or is it always black?

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tacaswell · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-21 16:42:00Z

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If you want to make all the edges the same color:

ax.scatter(...., edgecolor=EC)

where EC is a color. If you want to surpress the edge (so it looks like the edge color matches the face color) use

ax.scatter(..., linewidths=0)

If you want to have the edges be a different color than the face and each marker have it's own color it looks like you have to do the mapping your self:

my_cmap = cm.get_cmap('jet')
my_norm = matplotlib.colors.Normalize()
ec_data = rand(15)
my_normed_data = my_norm(ec_data)
ec_colors = my_cmap(my_normed_data) # a Nx4 array of rgba value
ax.scatter(rand(15), rand(15), s=500, c=rand(15), edgecolors=ec_colors, linewidth=3)

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answered Nov 21, 2013 at 16:42

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