OK, after posting I realize I can pass a vector to the 's' keyword in
plt.scatter to set the marker size, like s=[20,20,20,20,20,50,20,20,20,20].
How about using a different marker type? Thanks!
Regards,
Chao
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all matplotlib users,
>
> I have a user case that, let's say I have three series data: x,y,z.
> I would like to make a scatter plot using (x,y) as coordinates and z as
> the color of scatter points, using cmap keyword of plt.scatter. However, I
> would like to highlight some specific point by using a different marker (or
> marker size) than other points.
>
> A minimum example is like below:
> x,y,z = np.random.randn(3,10)
> plt.scatter(x,y,c=z,cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet)
> plt.colorbar()
>
> If I want to use a different marker or marker size for (x[5],y[5],z[5]),
> how could I do that?
> The only way I can think of is to plot again for this point using
> plt.scatter([x[5],y[5]) but define the color by manually finding the
> colormap color corresponding to z[5]. However this is quite tedious. Is
> there a better way?
>
> Thanks a lot for any help,
>
> Regards,
> Chao
>
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