[Mamzelle]

Tnx—I looked it up; must be a neologism? I guess I can read a “scatterplot”—but I think it’s a poor way to graph…sort of simple-minded.

[NorthMountain]

Tnx—I looked it up; must be a neologism? I guess I can read a “scatterplot”—but I think it’s a poor way to graph…sort of simple-minded.

1) The term "scatter plot" dates at least to the 1980s; I was using them the for analysis of a certain type of data and the technique was not new at the time.

2) Reading a scatter plot is not difficult, at least to first order and that's why

3) for some types of data it's an excellent way of displaying the data. It shows correlation between two parameters, and identifies clusters within that correlation.

4) "Simple" is a good thing for a data visualization technique.

[ladyjane]

A scatterplot is actually a good visual to show the relationship between two variables.