Imagine there’s no endogeneity
It’s easy if you try
No hidden selection bias
No omitted reasons why
Imagine all the scatterplots
Meaning what they show
It’s easy if you try
No hidden selection bias
No omitted reasons why
Imagine all the scatterplots
Meaning what they show
March 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Imagine there’s no endogeneity
It’s easy if you try
No hidden selection bias
No omitted reasons why
Imagine all the scatterplots
Meaning what they show
It’s easy if you try
No hidden selection bias
No omitted reasons why
Imagine all the scatterplots
Meaning what they show
My love languages are histograms and scatterplots.
March 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My love languages are histograms and scatterplots.
i love scatterplots and i cannot lie
what's in your view the best data-visualization technique/type of plot/chart? in terms of concisely conveying information effectively and aiding substantive understanding. obviously depends hugely the use case, etc. but if you had to pick one in a vacuum?
April 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i love scatterplots and i cannot lie
Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by `avoid-overlap` — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot. github.com/kevinschaul/...
March 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by `avoid-overlap` — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot. github.com/kevinschaul/...
Incredibly useful study but what happened to these poor scatterplots we will never know... ºo0°Ooº0⁰
June 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Incredibly useful study but what happened to these poor scatterplots we will never know... ºo0°Ooº0⁰
Of course, the various factors correlate with each other to a certain extent. The point is that bivariate scatterplots rarely tell the whole story.
February 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Of course, the various factors correlate with each other to a certain extent. The point is that bivariate scatterplots rarely tell the whole story.
8 chaotic scatterplots — and the bullish quality they all share 🐞 www.tker.co/p/stock-mark...
8 chaotic scatterplots — and the bullish quality they all share 🐞
Plus a charted review of the macro crosscurrents 🔀
www.tker.co
January 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
8 chaotic scatterplots — and the bullish quality they all share 🐞 www.tker.co/p/stock-mark...
I like scatterplots
August 25, 2023 at 12:58 PM
I like scatterplots
Moin Moin meine Klabautermänner, ät is zeit für n poar scatterplots nech
March 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Moin Moin meine Klabautermänner, ät is zeit für n poar scatterplots nech
📊 Connected scatterplots: Good or bad? Fun or frustrating? My colleague Luc Guillemot has opinions about them:
Connected scatterplots are controversial. They're weird. They look like line charts but they definitely are not line charts. But — and! — our visualization developer Luc is a loyal fan.
Read his thoughts on why the connected scatterplot deserves your attention: blog.datawrapper.de/connected-sc...
Read his thoughts on why the connected scatterplot deserves your attention: blog.datawrapper.de/connected-sc...
Are connected scatterplots so bad? - Datawrapper Blog
Connected scatterplots have critics galore — but I still like them, and I tried to figure out why.
blog.datawrapper.de
February 1, 2024 at 7:38 AM
📊 Connected scatterplots: Good or bad? Fun or frustrating? My colleague Luc Guillemot has opinions about them:
3D scatterplots are not natively supported {ggplot2}. Who has good workarounds?
I'm looking to make plots like this with a method that doesn't make me want to throw myself into the sea:
#rstats
I'm looking to make plots like this with a method that doesn't make me want to throw myself into the sea:
#rstats
March 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
3D scatterplots are not natively supported {ggplot2}. Who has good workarounds?
I'm looking to make plots like this with a method that doesn't make me want to throw myself into the sea:
#rstats
I'm looking to make plots like this with a method that doesn't make me want to throw myself into the sea:
#rstats
Bar charts, scatterplots and lines. Everything else is statisticians and economists pretending they're artists.
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Bar charts, scatterplots and lines. Everything else is statisticians and economists pretending they're artists.
First substack with @simonhix.bsky.social — was it a good idea to join labour and citizenship questions in the same referendum? Illustrated with scatterplots and (arguably) aesthetic maps!
Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June
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Divide and Lose
One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
First substack with @simonhix.bsky.social — was it a good idea to join labour and citizenship questions in the same referendum? Illustrated with scatterplots and (arguably) aesthetic maps!
is it still okay to put 15 scatterplots into a single figure using ggplot2 facet grid?
March 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
is it still okay to put 15 scatterplots into a single figure using ggplot2 facet grid?
i'm in the office making scatterplots
June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
i'm in the office making scatterplots
Hats off to the rando who wrote a nine post thread in the comments explaining to me, a person who conducts quant social science and teaches research methods for a living, what you can and can't learn from looking at scatterplots like these.
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
August 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hats off to the rando who wrote a nine post thread in the comments explaining to me, a person who conducts quant social science and teaches research methods for a living, what you can and can't learn from looking at scatterplots like these.
But when you look at the scatterplots (see thread above or supplementary plots in paper), you don't see any decreasing linear trend or decreasing trend at all.
The scatterplot just looks like a big point cloud, which is what one sees when there is no real relationship.
The scatterplot just looks like a big point cloud, which is what one sees when there is no real relationship.
March 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
But when you look at the scatterplots (see thread above or supplementary plots in paper), you don't see any decreasing linear trend or decreasing trend at all.
The scatterplot just looks like a big point cloud, which is what one sees when there is no real relationship.
The scatterplot just looks like a big point cloud, which is what one sees when there is no real relationship.
Riffing on Ed Leamer’s “sinning in the basement,” I ponder a theoretical reformation in machine learning.
(There are ImageNet scatterplots, IYKYK.)
(There are ImageNet scatterplots, IYKYK.)
Desirable Sins
Robustness of the holdout method and paths forward for machine learning theory.
www.argmin.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Riffing on Ed Leamer’s “sinning in the basement,” I ponder a theoretical reformation in machine learning.
(There are ImageNet scatterplots, IYKYK.)
(There are ImageNet scatterplots, IYKYK.)
one of the most painful and difficult to accept facts about the world is:
normal people simply do not understand scatterplots
normal people simply do not understand scatterplots
November 23, 2023 at 7:40 AM
one of the most painful and difficult to accept facts about the world is:
normal people simply do not understand scatterplots
normal people simply do not understand scatterplots
Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies
The R Graph Gallery – Help and inspiration for R charts
The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.
r-graph-gallery.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies
See also: scatterplots cannot get you to better policy solutions by themselves
April 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
See also: scatterplots cannot get you to better policy solutions by themselves
A friendly empirical note for those losing it over progressive primary wins: ideological positioning barely explains Democratic vote shares since 2006. Turnout explains a lot. The party can run to the center all it wants. It won’t help if the base doesn’t show up.
June 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
A friendly empirical note for those losing it over progressive primary wins: ideological positioning barely explains Democratic vote shares since 2006. Turnout explains a lot. The party can run to the center all it wants. It won’t help if the base doesn’t show up.
also it's wild how good the support for ternary scatterplots is in plotly?
February 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
also it's wild how good the support for ternary scatterplots is in plotly?