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Scatter Plot
Scatter Plot
Scatter plots are the graphs that present the relationship between two variables in a data-set.
It represents data points on a two-dimensional plane or on a Cartesian system. The
independent variable or attribute is plotted on the X-axis, while the dependent variable is
plotted on the Y-axis. These plots are often called scatter graphs or scatter diagrams.
Types of correlation
The scatter plot explains the correlation between two attributes or variables. It represents how
closely the two variables are connected. There can be three such situations to see the relation
between the two variables –
1. Positive Correlation
2. Negative Correlation
3. No Correlation
Positive Correlation
When the points in the graph are rising, moving from left to right, then the scatter plot shows
a positive correlation. It means the values of one variable are increasing with respect to
another. Now positive correlation can further be classified into three categories:
Negative Correlation
When the points in the scatter graph fall while moving left to right, then it is called a negative
correlation. It means the values of one variable are decreasing with respect to another. These
are also of three types:
No. of games 3 5 2 6 7 1 2 7 1 7
Scores 80 90 75 80 90 50 65 85 40 100
Solution:
X-axis or horizontal axis: Number of games
Y-axis or vertical axis: Scores
Now, the scatter graph will be:
Note: We can also combine scatter plots in multiple plots per sheet to read and understand
the higher-level formation in data sets containing multivariable, notably more than two
variables.
scatter plots of the variables on a single illustration with various scatterplots in a matrix
format. For the n number of variables, the scatterplot matrix will contain n rows and n
columns. A plot of variables x vs x will be located at the ith row and jth column intersection.
i j
We can say that each row and column is one dimension, whereas each cell plots a scatter plot
of two dimensions.