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 ...

So, you want to know how to create a scatter plot in Excel. Chances are, you probably already know what the term means, but given Microsoft Excel’s arsenal of options packed into each tab, getting ...

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 ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

Along with bar charts, scatter plots are probably the most common type of graph to help managers make decisions based on data. When you have a data set consisting of pairs of numbers, such as counts ...

An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method ...