diff --git a/examples/datasets/plot_iris_dataset.py b/examples/datasets/plot_iris_dataset.py
index f6d8032e389ffcf42a9f28b5bca0001cc3129cfa..8f4663e519032d0d1936f97a440960c2b6886188 100644
--- a/examples/datasets/plot_iris_dataset.py
+++ b/examples/datasets/plot_iris_dataset.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ plt.figure(2, figsize=(8, 6))
 plt.clf()
 
 # Plot the training points
-plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, cmap=plt.cm.Paired,
+plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, cmap=plt.cm.Set1,
             edgecolor='k')
 plt.xlabel('Sepal length')
 plt.ylabel('Sepal width')
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(8, 6))
 ax = Axes3D(fig, elev=-150, azim=110)
 X_reduced = PCA(n_components=3).fit_transform(iris.data)
 ax.scatter(X_reduced[:, 0], X_reduced[:, 1], X_reduced[:, 2], c=y,
-           cmap=plt.cm.Paired, edgecolor='k')
+           cmap=plt.cm.Set1, edgecolor='k', s=40)
 ax.set_title("First three PCA directions")
 ax.set_xlabel("1st eigenvector")
 ax.w_xaxis.set_ticklabels([])