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Author: Michael Vincent Mannino

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`DataFrame.pivot_table` and :func:`pivot_table` now allow the passing of keyword arguments to ``aggfunc`` through ``**kwargs`` (:issue:`57884`)
 - :meth:`Series.cummin` and :meth:`Series.cummax` now supports :class:`CategoricalDtype` (:issue:`52335`)
 - :meth:`Series.plot` now correctly handle the ``ylabel`` parameter for pie charts, allowing for explicit control over the y-axis label (:issue:`58239`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.plot.scatter` argument ``c`` now accepts a column of strings, where rows with the same string are colored identically (:issue:`16827` and :issue:`16485`)
 - Restore support for reading Stata 104-format and enable reading 103-format dta files (:issue:`58554`)
 - Support reading Stata 110-format (Stata 7) dta files (:issue:`47176`)