scatter plotting of string data

i have two cell in work sapce

name 57*1 cell
fatality_rate 57*1 cell

here names include string data

i want scatter plotting

and also the data shown with different colours

scatter(name,fatality_rate)

but it gives error

Error using scatter (line 56)
Input arguments must be numeric,
datetime, duration or categorical.

Error in untitled (line 17)
 scatter(name,fatlity_rate)
 

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

Ex

name={'A','B','C','D'};
rate=[30,40,50,90];
name=categorical(name);
scatter(name,rate);

[Muhammad]

good its working

i also wanted to plots with colours

Answer 1

[Jakob B. Nielsen]

Check https://se.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/convert-table-variables-containing-strings-to-categorical.html