I run into use-cases for this feature often. It seems so simple that it's hard to believe this is purely an oversight.

So, why does Series.plot() not have a kind='scatter' option?

Comment From: TomAugspurger

Most likely because of how it's implemented for DataFrames, which expects an x and y (not an index). You can get something similar with Series.plot(style='.')

Comment From: sinhrks

Closing as usage question.