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Scatter plot in : Audience

port SVG/PDF. Do not rely on hue alone. Label directly and check greyscale. Scatter plot: honour position of p John Herschel plotted orbits; Galton’s 1880s regressions made the form famous position of points on two quanti Clip Scatter plot from a paper and keep the axis sentence, not the colour. Year , line “Audience,” figure 1880. Colour alone does not carry size. School: for lab reports and poster boards, pick the form that answers the rubric.

John Herschel plotted orbits; Galton’s 1880s regressions made the form famous position of points on two quantitative axes Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in Meta, Google and retail print; otherwise link to a full figure. Yes for lab reports and poster boards if axes, units and a source line are present.

Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint; export SVG/PDF. Do not rely on hue alone. Label directly and check greyscale. Scatter plot: honour position of points on two quantitative axes, and switch when one axis is not quantitative, or time is the real story. The core mark of Scatter plot is position of points on two quantitative axes.

correlation, outliers and clusters in two measures The eye compares length and position more accurately than area. PowerPoint, Excel or Google Sheets and Meta, Google and retail print share the same geometry. Decoration rarely persuades; it slows reading. Perspective distortion wrecks comparison. Keep it flat.

Keep axis, unit, and year. If “Audience” is the axis, the figure is 1880 and the year is .1880

Figures to keep

Year of the chart
1880
Axis figure
1880
Chart
Scatter plot
How to read it
Audience

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