Overview: Matplotlib mistakes often come from poor layout, unclear labels, and wrong scale choices, not from the data ...

The graph is a scatter plot, entitled "Rainfall and Plant Growth." The horizontal X axis shows Average Rainfall ranging from zero to four thousand, in units of millimeters per year, in increments of ...

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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 ...