Demo of how to do cool colorful folded

Scatter for phase data

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Let's make some "dummy" data -- a time coordinate "x" and corresponding data "y".
x = np.arange(500)
y = np.sin(x/20.) + x/250.

period= 20 * 2*np.pi

# And then fold it on the period.
modulated = (x % period)/period

fig = plt.figure()

# Subplot makes two plots
plt.subplot(2,1,1)
# Scatter makes a scatterplot; when we set the "c=" keyword it colors in the points based on the array you give it.
plt.scatter(x,y, c=x)

plt.subplot(2,1,2)
plt.scatter(modulated, y, c=x)
plt.colorbar()