Visualization types

Bubble Chart

A bubble chart is a variation of a scatter plot that displays data points as bubbles.

A bubble chart consists of a series of values that are plotted on an x-axis and y-axis, with each axis representing a variable and each value represented as a dot. The third variable value is then used to proportionally scale each bubble or dot. Bubble charts often include an independent variable, such as years of education, a dependent variable, such as annual income, and a proportional variable, such as population. When the dots are plotted against these two axes, bubble charts communicate the strength, type, and proportion of the relationship that exists between these variables.

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