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Blog - basic scatter plot #22

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@kdorr kdorr commented Aug 15, 2018

This is the scatter plot section from the blog post Nabarun and I were working on.

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Really clean, but maybe add a line after the convert to show the power/benefit of converting the Altair object into an mpl one?

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title: "Making a Scatter Plot - Part 1"
date: 2018-08-15 15:00:00 -0500
author: "Kimberly Orr and Nabarun Pal"
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I think Jekyll has a format for multiple authors

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# Making a Scatter Plot
This post will walk you through making a simple scatter plot in Altair, Matplotlib, and mpl-altair.
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I think drop the word simple


# Making a Scatter Plot
This post will walk you through making a simple scatter plot in Altair, Matplotlib, and mpl-altair.
We'll examine the cars dataset:
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Add a sentence explaining the cars dataset or link to it?


## mpl-altair
To produce the mpl-altair plot, create the Altair chart and then pass it to
mplaltair's `convert()` function. The resulting fig and ax are Matplotlib plots.
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Matplotlib objects.

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