''' Demo of a scatter plot (scatter) with a legend. Also demonstrates how transparency of the markers can be adjusted by giving ``alpha`` a value between 0 and 1. ''' import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from numpy.random import rand fig, ax = plt.subplots() for color in ['red', 'green', 'blue']: n = 750 x, y = rand(2, n) scale = 200.0 * rand(n) ax.scatter(x, y, c=color, s=scale, label=color, alpha=0.3, edgecolors='none') ax.legend() ax.grid(True) plt.show()