Highlight matplotlib points that go over or under a threshold in colors based on the amount the boundaries are crossed

Question

I have a graph that looks like this:

And the code I\'m running to get this graph (one of a sequence of

Answer 1

Use boolean indexing to identify these points and plot them separately:

import numpy as np
x = np.random.rand(20)

b = x > 0.7

print(b)
print(x[b])