Scatter Charts

Scatter charts use data points to plot two measures anywhere along a scale, not only at regular tick marks.

You can also specify a default measure. For example, you might need to specify a default measure to give context to a calculated measure in the chart. For more information about the default measure, see Specify the Default Measure.

Scatter charts are useful for exploring correlations between different sets of data.

Note: The Employee Satisfaction 2012 sample report in the GO Data Warehouse (analysis) package includes a scatter chart. For more information about The Sample Outdoors Company samples, see Sample Reports and Packages.

The following example shows the correlation between production cost and gross profit for each product line.

a scatter chart showing gross profit and production cost by product line