
A Simple Trick to Make Heatmaps More Useful
Instead of reading through hundreds of individual values, a heatmap allows you to see the structure of the data easily. But there are a few questions that the heat map makes it hard to answer.

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Instead of reading through hundreds of individual values, a heatmap allows you to see the structure of the data easily. But there are a few questions that the heat map makes it hard to answer.

A bubble chart of the 25 biggest apps, and what it costs to fit five variables onto one plot.

An ordinary scatter plot with a trendline, close to what Excel would give you by default, and the storytelling choices that make it land.
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