I'm fairly new to scatter plots and python in general. I am trying to plot a third variable against an x and a y, however, I'm not quite sure how to about specifying that argument? So I would have X values which are ints, y values which are also ints and then on the graph itself I want the model scores to show. Is there any way to do this sort of thing?
Thank you.
You can use color to plot a third value. Here is a very minimal example :
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.cm as cm
import numpy as np
x = np.random.rand(100)
y = np.random.rand(100)
z = np.random.rand(100)
plt.scatter(x,y, c=z, s=5, cmap=cm.hsv)
cbar= plt.colorbar()
plt.show()
Edit
You could also use the size of markers, their transparency, hue or rgb values to depict even more information. Here is an example with marker size, alpha level and color on a perceptually uniform colormap.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.colors as colors
import matplotlib.cm as cmx
x = np.random.rand(100)
y = np.random.rand(100)
z = np.random.rand(100)
t = np.random.rand(100)
w = np.random.rand(100)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
cmap = plt.get_cmap('plasma')
cNorm = colors.Normalize(vmin=0, vmax=max(z))
scalarMap = cmx.ScalarMappable(norm=cNorm, cmap=cmap)
for i in range(100):
ax.scatter(x[i],y[i], c=scalarMap.to_rgba(z[i]), s=t[i]*100, cmap=cmx.plasma, alpha=w[i], edgecolor='none')
scalarMap.set_array([])
fig.colorbar(scalarMap,ax=ax)
for a in [0.1, 0.5, 0.9]:
ax.scatter([], [], c='k', alpha=0.5, s=a*100, label=str(a), edgecolors='none')
l1 = ax.legend(scatterpoints=1, frameon=True, loc='lower left' ,markerscale=1)
for b in [0.25, 0.5, 0.75]:
ax.scatter([], [], c='k', alpha=b, s=50, label=str(b), edgecolors='none')
ax.legend(scatterpoints=1, frameon=True, loc='lower right' ,markerscale=1)
fig.show()
len(x),len(y),len(z)At face value, that question doesn't really make sense because a conventional scatterplot has only two axes, and of course you can't plot points with three dimensions (x, y and accuracy).
However, there are alternative ways to do so.
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
x = np.random.rand(200)
y = np.random.rand(200)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 5))
ax.scatter(x, y, c=(x + y), cmap='RdPu')
scatter takes a c argument, which can be a numeric value, as well as a cmap argument, which can be a string referencing a colormap.
The colormap object translates the numbers provided in c into points along a colour mapping, which you can think of as a gradient bar.
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5))
ax = Axes3D(fig)
ax.scatter(x, y, (x + y))
This turns your 3rd dimension, accuracy, into an ordinary spatial dimension.
Very similar to the color option in the first part, you can change the size of the scatter markers (given you have some idea about the scale of the values). So based on the first example, you can also do;
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
x = np.random.rand(200)
y = np.random.rand(200)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 5))
ax.scatter(x, y, c='k', s=5*(x + y), cmap='RdPu')
scatter takes also the s argument, that changes the size of the markers.
