Make a Scatter Plot in matplotlib with dates on x axis and values on y
I am having trouble making a scatter plot that has from a date array and a bunch of PM 2.5 values. My lists would look like the following: dates = ['2015-12-20','2015-09-12'] PM_25 = [80, 55] import pandas as pd dates = ['2015-12-20','2015-09-12'] PM_25 = [80, 55] dates = [pd.to_datetime(d) for d in dates] plt.scatter(dates, PM_25, s =100, c = 'red') s sets the size c sets the color There are a whole bunch of other args as well: http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.scatter If a plot with data that contains dates, you can use plot_date Similar to the plot() command,