Is your feature request related to a problem?
I just had to generate a scatter plot with labels for the points, and was surprised that there isn't an argument to .plot.scatter to allow this.
Describe the solution you'd like
An additional keyword argument to df.plot.scatter that adds labels to the points. This would be off by default because it is not helpful for plots with too many points. I am unsure about the type of the parameter that should be passed. A default case that uses the index (if available) as a label would be useful, otherwise something iterable that contains the value for each point, or a string reference to a column name to use as labels.
API breaking implications
This would only extend the available options for .plot.scatter and should lead to no API breaking changes as long as care is taken that the parameter name doesn't shadow some kwarg that would be handled by the underlying functions (incl. matplotlib) instead.
Describe alternatives you've considered
My current workaround is simply:
plt = df.plot.scatter(x='x', y='y')
# Label the points
for row in df[['x', 'y']].itertuples():
plt.text(row.x, row.y, row.Index)
If this is a reasonable feature request, I will look into implementing it myself, but currently I don't have the time, and could not find any previous issue that addresses this feature.
Comment From: mroeschke
Thanks for the suggestion, but since there hasn't been much interest from the core devs or community going to close. Can reopen if there's renewed interest