Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Scatter plots

Create a script called scatter_plot_plotly.py and write the following content in it:

import plotlyimport plotly.graph_objs as goimport numpy as npx_axis = np.random.randn(100)y_axis = np.random.randn(100)trace = go.Scatter(x=x_axis, y=y_axis, mode = 'markers')data_set = [trace]plotly.offline.plot(data_set, filename='scatter_plot.html')

Run the script and you will get the following output:

student@ubuntu:~/work$ python3 scatter_plot_plotly.py

The output is as follows:

In the preceding example, we imported plotly and then created random data by using numpy and, for that, import the numpy module in your script. After generating ...