Show direction arrows in a scatterplot

Question

I am plotting data in a scatterplot an I would like to see the direction of the hysteresis. Does anyone have a good idea how to implement arrows on each line that point into the direction of the next point?

Alternatively, the markers could be replaced by arrows pointing in the direction of the next point.

What I am looking for:

Code to obtain the plot (without arrows):

df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict({'x' : [0,3,8,7,5,3,2,1],
                             'y' : [0,1,3,5,9,8,7,5]})
x = df['x']
y = df['y']
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter(x,y)
ax.plot(x,y)

Answer 1

As commented, one can use plt.quiver to produce arrows along a line, e.g. like

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict({'x' : [0,3,8,7,5,3,2,1],
                             'y' : [0,1,3,5,9,8,7,5]})
x = df['x'].values
y = df['y'].values

u = np.diff(x)
v = np.diff(y)
pos_x = x[:-1] + u/2
pos_y = y[:-1] + v/2
norm = np.sqrt(u**2+v**2) 

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x,y, marker="o")
ax.quiver(pos_x, pos_y, u/norm, v/norm, angles="xy", zorder=5, pivot="mid")
plt.show()