Producing High-Quality Figures Using SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics Procedures

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Thunderstorm or Raindrop Scatter Plots

6.1 Introduction

Data visualization, using attractive and effective gures to display all data

points to allow readers to see the overall data patterns, study the inherent

relationships, and detect outliers has been an interesting yet challenging

job for statisticians (Cleveland, 1985; Tufte, 1983, 1997, 2006). Many different

types of plots have been introduced and produced, including those especially

named for their shapes, like the bag, bar, bike, box, bubble, pie, pyramid,

spaghetti, rainbow, violin, and waterfall plots (Allison, 2012; Hyndman and

Shang, 2010). This chapter introduces and illustrates ...