gistfile1.txt

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import csv as csv

def no_commas(num):
    if num == '':
        num = 0
    else:
        num = num.replace(',', '') 
    return float(num)

f = csv.reader(open('2015_buzz_scrape_Jan.csv', 'rU'))
header = next(f)
data = []  
for line in f:
  for column in line:
    data.append(no_commas(column))
                                  
data = np.array(data)

x1 = data[0::,7] 
y1 = data[0::,8]

plt.xlim(0, 2000000)
plt.ylim(0, 5000)

plt.scatter(x1, y1)
plt.show()