Comments on: Tax Scatterplot http://helpmeviz.com/2014/02/20/tax-scatterplot/ Helping people with everyday data visualizations Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Matt Lanagan http://helpmeviz.com/2014/02/20/tax-scatterplot/#comment-2280 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:49:24 +0000 http://helpmeviz.com/?p=297#comment-2280 To focus on the graphical display, I think in this case it is important to be able to distinguish each point. Ordering the data is used to separate the values for each state and leaders help to highlight points off the regression line.

1. Sort data by revenue exposure – gives a reasonable simulation of the regression line.
2. Create a psuedo-scatterplot of both series against state names.
3. Calculate the difference between exposure and change (not a meaningful number), and apply the value as a custom error bar to revenue exposure to draw leader lines between points.
4. Format as you prefer.

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