Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots

An open-source system makes it possible to create interactive scatterplots of large datasets

This story was originally published by MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).

Scatterplots. You may not know them by name, but if you spend more than 10 minutes online, you’ll find them everywhere.

They’re popular in news articles, in the data science community, and perhaps most crucially, for internet memes about the digestive quality of pancakes.

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Great article (did I find a typo?)

Hi!

Very interesting and useful article.

In the following line, I think the "800" could be a typo because 100% is the largest reduction possible from an original quantity.

"The team showed that the system allows users to create visualizations with 800-percent less code compared to a similar state-of-the-art authoring system."

Thank you.

Nice catch

Nice catch Eunice! Checking with author but I believe what he meant is "800 times less." "times" not "percent"