title: Python - Categorical bubble plot
body: <p>I have a 12x17 dataframe and want to create a categorical bubble plot looking like this one: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IvD58.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://i.stack.imgur.com/IvD58.png</a> (from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15840926/categorical-bubble-plot-for-mapping-studies">Categorical bubble plot for mapping studies</a>)</p>
  
  <p>My dataframe looks basically like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#      A     B     C
  # X   0.3   0.2   0.4
  # Y   0.1   0.4   0.1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can't use matplotlib.scatter because it does not take categorical input and creating fake values doesn't work either because it's not n*n. Or can I? I couldn't figure it out. I found seaborn.stripplot which takes one categorical input but the size of all bubbles is the same so I am stuck.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas how I could create such a plot in python? Thanks a lot.</p>