Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

Scatter graphs are used to represent and compare two sets of data. By looking at a scatter graph, we can see whether there is any connection (correlation) between the two sets of data. Matt sells ...

You can use the Correlations task to compute pairwise correlation coefficients for the variables in your data set. The correlation is a measure of the strength of the linear relationship between two ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

They're all around us. They're on our food, in the news, in books and on social media. Andsometimes, this big jumble of numbers can seem daunting. But I think they're 100% interesting. Andif you know ...

Before I started playing Guess the Correlation, I didn’t expect to spend an hour of my Easter weekend obsessing over an 8-bit video game, much less one based on something that many scientists do every ...