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Plotting with keywords#
There are some instances where you have data in a format that lets you
access particular variables with strings: for example, with
numpy.recarray
or pandas.DataFrame
.
Matplotlib allows you to provide such an object with the data
keyword
argument. If provided, you may generate plots with the strings
corresponding to these variables.
![keyword plotting](../../_images/sphx_glr_keyword_plotting_001.png)
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
np.random.seed(19680801)
data = {'a': np.arange(50),
'c': np.random.randint(0, 50, 50),
'd': np.random.randn(50)}
data['b'] = data['a'] + 10 * np.random.randn(50)
data['d'] = np.abs(data['d']) * 100
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter('a', 'b', c='c', s='d', data=data)
ax.set(xlabel='entry a', ylabel='entry b')
plt.show()