pydata/pandas — pull request #8566 by shoyer (2014-10-16 00:58:38+00:00)
Title: Switch default colormap for scatterplot to 'Greys'

In #7780, I added colormap support to scatter, but choose to override the
default rainbow colormap (7780#issuecomment-49533995).

I'm now regreting choosing 'RdBu' as the default colormap. I think a simple
black-white colormap is a more conservative and better default choice for
coloring scatter plots -- binary colormaps really only make sense if the data
is signed. 'Greys' is also the default colormap set by the seaborn package,
and @mwaskom has done far more thinking about colormaps than I have.

If possible, I would love to get this in before 0.15 is released, so we don't
have to worry about changing how anyone's plots look.

CC @sinkhrks