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 ...

You can insert a chart in Excel by selecting your dataset, heading over to the Insert tab, and clicking the chart type you want in the Charts group of the ribbon. Then, you can customize them by ...

Scatter graphs are a visual way of showing if there is a connection between groups of data. If there is a strong connection or correlation, a ‘line of best fit’ can be drawn. Part of ...

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