Scatter plot with colormap makes X-axis disappear

Question

I want to scatter plot the first two columns of the following pandas.DataFrame, with the third column as color values.

>>>df = pd.DataFrame({'a': {'1128': -2, '1129': 0, '1146': -4, '1142': -3, '1154': -2,
 '1130': -1, '1125': -1, '1126': -2, '1127': -5, '1135': -2},
 'c': {'1128': 5300, '1129': 6500, '1146': 8900, '1142': 8900,
 '1154': 9000, '1130': 5600, '1125': 9400, '1126': 6000, '1127': 7200,
 '1135': 7700}, 'b': {'1128': -3, '1129': -10, '1146': -6, '1142': -3,
 '1154': -7, '1130': -2, '1125': -7, '1126': -7, '1127': 0, '1135': -1}}


>>>df
        a   b   c
did         
1125    -1  -7  9400
1126    -2  -7  6000
1127    -5  0   7200
1128    -2  -3  5300
1129    0   -10 6500
1130    -1  -2  5600
1135    -2  -1  7700
1142    -3  -3  8900
1146    -4  -6  8900
1154    -2  -7  9000

If I try:

>>>df.plot('a', 'b', kind='scatter', color=df['c'], colormap='YlOrRd')

I get

And the X-axis disappears.

I tried ax.set_axis_on() and ax.axis('on') to no avail.

Answer 1

You can use sharex=False:

df.plot('a', 'b', kind='scatter', color=df['c'], colormap='YlOrRd', sharex=False)

Idea from github.