15.071 | Spring 2017 | Graduate

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7.2 Visualizing the World: An Introduction to Visualization

7.2 Visualizing the World: An Introduction to Visualization

Quick Question

Normally, a scatterplot only allows us to visualize two dimensions - one on the x-axis, and one on the y-axis. In the previous video we were able to show a third dimension on the scatterplot using what attribute?

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Explanation On slide 3, we show the scatterplot from slide 2, but with the number of cylinders shown by the color of the points. This allows us to visualize a third dimension of our data.

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