Making a 2d scatter plot with multiple data sets and color map

I am trying to plot three different data sets with data x, y and z against each other where z would depict the color. Right now I can only make a scatter plot that graphs x and y of the three data sets on the sane plot by doing this:

scatter(RAAVtime,RAAValt,RAAVtemp,'filled');
hold on;
scatter(newTime1,FAlt_ave1,Temp_ave1,'filled','s')
hold on;
scatter(newTime,FAlt_ave,Temp_ave,'filled','d');

I want the z collumn or temp data to depict the color of the scatter data by creating a colormap however nothing I've been trying using the colormap function has been working. Any advice?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Use the third argument of scatter to determine the size of the points, and the fourth argument of scatter to determine the colours:

x = randn(1,10);
y = randn(1,10);
z = randn(1,10);

figure
scatter(x, y, [], z, 'filled','s')
grid

See the documentation section on Vary Circle Color for details.

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[Joseph Tirado]

I should have been more specific, I am not trying to make a scatter plot with colors I choose but with a heat map based on the z data

[Star Strider]

That definitely would have been appropriate, since the scatter function was posted!

If you have R2017a or later, the heatmap function may do what you want.

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