Vol: 40 Page: 31

Authors:
Marcin Kozak
Agnieszka Wnuk
Dariusz Gozdowski
Zdzisław Wyszyński

Title:
 Visualizing bivariate relationships with hexagonally binned data

Language: English

Keywords:
scatterplot
graphics
visualization

Summary:
Scatterplots are overwhelmingly often used in numerous branches of science. Unfortunately, they fail when the number of points in a plot is very large. Graphing hexagonally binned data is one of the efficient ways of dealing with such situations. This paper shows the application of a display of hexagonally binned data for a three-year field experiment with spring barley. The display is compared with regular scatterplots and it is shown that it provides information about a relationship when regular scatterplots fail, even despite of employing very small symbols and jittering. We also provide the code that was used to produce the graphs in R environment.

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