Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers. You can give spreadsheet viewers a graphical representation of those numbers by ...

In addition to using the shape, size, and color attributes to control the markers, you can specify a categorical variable whose values control these marker characteristics. To do so, use the ...

The graph is a scatter plot, entitled "Rainfall and Plant Growth." The horizontal X axis shows Average Rainfall ranging from zero to four thousand, in units of millimeters per year, in increments of ...