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 ...

The Scatter control can generate a scatter plot, a join plot, and a surface plot. To specify the plot type, set the chartType attribute to either Scatter, Join, or Surface. A join plot is essentially ...

Let’s look at what correlation means in terms of the relationship between variables. Although our focus will be on positive correlation, we will also describe negative correlation and what we mean ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.

Before I started playing Guess the Correlation, I didn’t expect to spend an hour of my Easter weekend obsessing over an 8-bit video game, much less one based on something that many scientists do every ...