""" ====================== Plotting with keywords ====================== Some data structures, like dict, `structured numpy array `_ or `pandas.DataFrame` provide access to labelled data via string index access ``data[key]``. For these data types, Matplotlib supports passing the whole datastructure via the ``data`` keyword argument, and using the string names as plot function parameters, where you'd normally pass in your data. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np 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()