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TinoDerb opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #61233
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BUG: Automatic change of color when the plot type is "line" but not when it is "scatter" #59846

TinoDerb opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #61233
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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# I am using Jupyter. and my backend is notebook, for this, I use %matplotlib notebook
data = {'y': [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
        'x': [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
        'layer' : ['a','a','a','b','b','b','c','c','c','c']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
plt.figure()
df.groupby("layer").plot(x='x', y='y', ax= plt.gca(), kind='line') # this changes the color automatically

plt.figure()
df.groupby("layer").plot(x='x', y='y', ax= plt.gca(), kind='scatter') # this does not

Issue Description

I was trying to write an asnwer on stackoverflow and I noticed the following behaviour:

Using df.groupby("layer").plot(x='x', y='y', ax= plt.gca(), kind='line') changes the color of every new group automatically.

line

This is however not seen when using kind="scatter".

scatter

I think my version is a bit older than the latest one, but I could not find any similar issue on github.

Expected Behavior

I expect that the color should also change for the scatter kind. For this, here is the output of the following code:

plt.figure()
for layer in df['layer'].unique(): # group by layer
    subDf = df[df['layer'] == layer] # get subset of dataframe
    plt.scatter(subDf['x'], subDf['y'], label=layer) # plot
# add labels and such
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y')

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Installed Versions

commit : 0f43794
python : 3.11.5.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.22631
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processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 186 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
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LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
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numpy : 1.24.3
pytz : 2023.3.post1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 68.0.0
pip : 23.2.1
Cython : 3.0.6
pytest : 7.4.0
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 5.0.2
blosc : None
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brotli :
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openpyxl : 3.0.10
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 11.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
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df.groupby("layer").plot(x='x', y='y', ax=plt.gca(), kind='line', color='blue').
DEFINE COLOR EXPICITLY BY PASSING COLOR PARAMETER IN THE FUNCTION PLOT BECAUSE WHEN WE USE groupby(layer)
it divides the plot data in groups and uses default matplotlib color cycle to different groups sets

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@abhisin-07 Hey, it seems you didn't really read the issue. The desired results is to have the automatic matplotlib color cycle for kind='scatter', just like when plotting with kind='line'.

P.S.: no need for all caps :)

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Hmm, with the line plot, even the color is correct, the legend is problematic.

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