Creating 2D Scatter Plots

You can use Visual Analytics to create a 2D scatter plot to explore the relationship between two variables.

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About 2D Scatter Plots
  1. From the visualization controls in the upper right of the Visual Analytics canvas, click New Visualization .
  2. Select Scatter 2D.
  3. Enter a Title and Description.

    The title appears on the visualization when it is added to the canvas.

  4. Optional: Select a parameter to correspond to the color of data points in the plot.
  5. Optional: Select a parameter to correspond to the size of data points in the plot.
  6. Select parameters to be measure on the X- and Y-axes.
  7. Select Show constrained areas to show constrained areas for parameters on the X- and Y-axes.
  8. Do one of the following:
    • Click Create and Close to create the new visualization and to return to the canvas.
    • Click Create to create the new visualization and to keep the new visualization window open.
  9. Once the visualization is created, you can click or drag to highlight one or more data points to display more information in the Properties panel.

    Tip: You can hold Shift to select multiple data points.

    Data points selected in one scatter plot are also selected in any other scatter plots, histograms, cumulative frequency charts, and Pareto plots present on the canvas.