Chapter 6. Creating Scatter and Bubble Plots
In this chapter, we extend our examples of using D3.js for plotting data to explain how to create scatter and bubble plots. Scatter and bubble plots visualize multivariate data, as compared to univariate data that is visualized by bar charts. Multivariate data consists of two or more variables, and scatter plots allow us to visualize two variable, and bubble plots extend this to three or four variables.
We will begin by first creating a simple scatter plot with fixed symbols, based upon stock correlation data. We start with using solid circles for symbols, and will progress through several enhancements including the use of color, outlines, and opacity. We will wrap up scatter plots with an example of ...
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