pandas scatter plotting datetime

Question

I have a dataframe with two columns of datetime.time\'s. I\'d like to scatter plot them. I\'d also like the axes to display the times, ideally. But

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Answer 1

Here's a basic work around to get you started.

import matplotlib, datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def scatter_date(df, x, y, datetimeformat):
  if not isinstance(y, list):
      y = [y]
  for yi in y:
      plt.plot_date(df[x].apply(
          lambda z: matplotlib.dates.date2num(
              datetime.datetime.strptime(z, datetimeformat))), df[yi], label=yi)
  plt.legend()
  plt.xlabel(x)

# Example Usage
scatter_date(data, x='date', y=['col1', 'col2'], datetimeformat='%Y-%m-%d')