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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A little chat about stats and scatter plots, how they can be useful for 2026 fantasy baseball and fun for us nerds.

High-dimensional data pose a significant analytical and representational challenge. One instinctual response has been to represent data in three-dimensional (3D) space in order to capture additional ...