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Changing the marker size of scatter plots in Matplotlib
schedule Mar 5, 2023
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Constant size
To change the size of all markers in Matplotlib, specify the s argument in plt.scatter(~):
x = [1,2,4]y = [3,3,3]plt.scatter(x, y, s=100)plt.show()
This produces the following output:
Variable size
To vary the size of individual markers, pass in an array instead:
x = [1,2,4]y = [3,3,3]sizes = [5,50,500]plt.scatter(x, y, s=sizes)plt.xlim(0,5)plt.show()
The output is as follows:
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