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Scatterplots

The pyplot module can also be used to make other types of plots, like scatterplots. Let's make a scatterplot of the company's stock prices over time.

Two lists, days and prices are available in your workspace.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Python for Finance

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Exercise instructions

  • Draw a scatterplot with days on the x-axis and prices on the y-axis with green markers.
  • Display the plot with the show() function.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Plot price as a function of time
plt.____(____, ____, color='____', s=0.1)

# Show plot
____
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