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 ...

The legend on an Excel scatter plot is simply a list of the names for each of the series on the chart. The legend is color coordinated, so you can quickly determine which data points belong to which ...

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 ...

The number of umbrellas sold and the amount of rainfall on 9 days is shown on the scatter graph and in the table. The graph shows that there is a positive correlation between the number of umbrellas ...

In this tutorial we begin our investigation of multivariate statistics using correlation and scatterplots. The idea is that we have two continuous variables and we want to examine the strength of the ...

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 ...