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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def plot_data(self, proj, ax):
 """ Creates and plots a scatter plot of the original data. """

        x, y = proj
        ax.scatter(self.ig.independent_data[x],
                   self.ig.dependent_data[y], c='b')