Pandas scatter_matrix - plot categorical variables

Question

I am looking at the famous Titanic dataset from the Kaggle competition found here: http://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic-gettingStarted/data

I have loaded and processed the da

Answer 1

after googling and remembering something like the .map() function I fixed it in the following way:

colors=['red','green'] # color codes for survived : 0=red or 1=green

# create mapping Series for gender so it can be plotted
gender = Series([0,1],index=['male','female'])    
df['gender']=df.Sex.map(gender)

# create mapping Series for Embarked so it can be plotted
embarked = Series([0,1,2,3],index=df.Embarked.unique())
df['embarked']=df.Embarked.map(embarked)

# add survived also back to the df
df['survived']=target

now I can plot it again...and drop the added columns afterwards.

thanks everyone for responding.....