On 13 Ean 2010, at 21:06, Alex Olssen wrote:
I have a scatterplot with a couple of outliers. The effect of these
outliers is to compress the vast majority of observations into the
bottom third of the graph space making it hard to see what is going
on with the observations. Rather than dropping the outliers and
ignoring them altogether I would like to put a line break through
the axis. This would allow the majority of the observations to fill
most of the graph space but still highlight to the reader the fact
that the outliers exist.
As we say in french, you can't have the milk and the cheese and the
smile of the dairymaid. If you want most of the data to occupy most of
the space in the graph (good principle) then you might just have to
place a little piece of text with an arrow pointing north, saying N
observations > Y not shown", which draws the readers' attention to
them in a different way.
Ronan Conroy
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