Briefle words · Data & charts
Scatter plot
A chart that places each item as a dot by two numeric values, one on each axis, to show how the two are related.
Say it to an AI
Show the relationship between September ad spend and signups across ten cities. Use a scatter plot, spend on x and signups on y, each dot labeled by city; mark the outlier Cork in a contrasting color so the correlation and the exception both read at once.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Ad spend vs. signups”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →City-level marketing review in the growth dashboard of a bike-sharing operator.
Why: B plots ten cities with ad spend across and signups up; A keeps the two measures in separate panels.
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Room 2 · Choosing the chart
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