# How to color points in scatter plot by value?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-color-points-in-scatter-plot-by-value/11740
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plotting
**Created:** [June 17, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-color-points-in-scatter-plot-by-value/11740 "2018-06-17T23:03:16Z")
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In plots.jl there is the option of using marker\_z.

```julia
using Plots
x= rand(10)
y= rand(10)
z= rand(10)
scatter(x,y,marker_z=z)

```

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