Chart maker · Scatter
Scatter plot maker
Two numeric columns in, one honest answer out: do these things move together? Editable native chart for PowerPoint and WPS. Free, no sign-up.
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Each row is one thing — a campaign, a store, a sales rep — and the two columns are its two measurements. Paste that and, when both columns are numeric, the scatter plot shows up in the recommendations. Export as a native, editable PPTX chart or an animated GIF. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
When a scatter plot wins
- The question is "related?" Spend vs revenue, price vs volume, hours vs defects. The cloud of points answers it before any statistic does.
- The outliers are the agenda. One store beating the trend line, one rep below it — the dots off the pattern are where your next meeting lives.
- You need to disarm a assumption. "More discounts drive more orders" — plotted, the room sees whether that belief survives contact with the data.
When it lets you down
- One axis is a category. Region names on the x-axis make dot soup — that is a bar chart.
- Thousands of unlabeled points. Beyond a few hundred dots you are drawing a texture, not an argument. Aggregate first.
- The room reads causation into it. Correlation is a suggestion, not proof — say that out loud, because someone will not.
Try it with this data
| Ad spend (K$) | Conversions |
|---|---|
| 5 | 120 |
| 8 | 210 |
| 12 | 260 |
| 15 | 340 |
| 18 | 290 |
| 22 | 480 |
| 30 | 520 |
Field notes on scatters
- Draw the trend line. The cloud plus its line is the argument; the cloud alone is a Rorschach test.
- Name the two dots that matter. Label the overperformer and the underperformer — those names become your action items.
- Axes need not start at zero. Position, not length, carries the value here — but keep the grid honest and say the range aloud.
- One scatter, one question. Two variables per chart, one claim per slide — the three-second rule from field note #2 applies double here.
Two columns you suspect are conspiring?
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From the field notes
A scatter with three messages is no message — the discipline of one claim per page is in field note #2.
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