show density in scatter

Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as
more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more
probable points?

I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers. Drawback may
be too many points plotted.

Colors would be nice, but I guess that would be more work?

Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as
more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more
probable points?

This is what hexbin is for, although it takes the additional step of showing points on a grid, not at their original precise locations.

Eric

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On 05/18/2011 09:01 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers. Drawback may
be too many points plotted.

Colors would be nice, but I guess that would be more work?

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You could try something like the scatter+histograms shown here:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_hist.html

Takes a bit more space, but the colors aren’t as important.

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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@…985…> wrote:

Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as

more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more

probable points?

I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers. Drawback may

be too many points plotted.

Colors would be nice, but I guess that would be more work?

Using scatter, it seems less probably (numerous) points show just as much as
more probable points. Can anyone suggest a good way to emphasize the more
probable points?

Another idea: set alpha to something less than 1, maybe something like 0.3; then superimposed markers will show up darker than lone markers.

Eric

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On 05/18/2011 09:01 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

I was thinking maybe the easy way is just scale down the markers. Drawback may
be too many points plotted.

Colors would be nice, but I guess that would be more work?

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