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Scatter Plots

Display correlations between two continuous variables.

Description

For example, you could display heights and weights or grade point averages and standardized test scores. Scatter plots are a staple from your college statistics course, but they tend to be less recognizable among everyday people who haven’t taken those same statistics courses.

Synonyms

  • Scatter plot
  • Scatterplot
  • Scatter diagram
  • Scattergraph

Resources

  • A brief history of the scatter plot–data visualization’s greatest invention
  • Five ways to read a scatterplot
  • The early origins and development of the scatterplot
  • Scatterplot

 

Functions

Examples

  • The stark relationship between income inequality and crime
  • In countries where the current economic mood is positive, people are much more likely to say life is better than it was a half-century ago
  • Income and inequality by country
  • Income and inequality by state
  • How to prevent gun deaths? Where experts and the public agree
  • Hurricane strength at U.S. landfall
  • Pricier homes saw the slowest annual growth in June
  • The two cracks in the Republican party
  • The Republican poll nightmare that is Donald Trump
  • Wine ratings: Manager’s score vs. performance score

Example Chart

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