How to color `matplotlib` scatterplot using a continuous value [`seaborn` color palettes?]

Question

I have a scatterplot and I want to color it based on another value (naively assigned to np.random.random() in this case).

Is there a way to use

Answer 1

from matplotlib.cm import ScalarMappable
from matplotlib.colors import Normalize


cmap = {obsv_id:np.random.random() for obsv_id in DF_PCA.index}
sm = ScalarMappable(norm=Normalize(vmin=min(list(cmap.values())), vmax=max(list(cmap.values()))), cmap=sns.cubehelix_palette(as_cmap=True))

# Plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter(x=DF_PCA["PC1"], y=DF_PCA["PC2"], color=[sm.to_rgba(cmap[obsv_id]) for obsv_id in DF_PCA.index])
ax.set_title("With Coloring")