ENH: Add ScatterPlot._scatter() #51560
Description
Feature Type
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Adding new functionality to pandas
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Changing existing functionality in pandas
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Removing existing functionality in pandas
Problem Description
I am contributing to anesthetic, which extends pandas for plotting the results of nested sampling. It is very convenient that HistPlot._makeplot() calls the class method self._plot() which KdePlot overrides, as our histograms can do the same and not worry about handling the rest of the formatting in _makeplot(). It would be useful if ScatterPlot worked similarly, so we could insert our own scatter.
Perhaps _scatter() would be more appropriate than _plot() in this case.
Feature Description
Extending ScatterPlot would look something like this:
from pandas.plotting._matplotlib.core import ScatterPlot
def my_scatter_method(ax, x, y, **kwds):
# additional processing appropriate for nested sampling
return ax.scatter(x, y, ...)
class MyScatterPlot(ScatterPlot):
@classmethod
def _scatter(cls, ax, x, y, **kwds):
return my_scatter_method(ax, x, y, **kwds)
Alternative Solutions
Currently we override ScatterPlot._makeplot(), so we have to deal again with handling all the e.g. color arguments.
Additional Context
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