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Bubble chart

A bubble chart is a type of chart that displays three dimensions of data. Each entity with its triplet (v 1 , v 2 , v 3 ) of associated data is plotted as a disk that expresses two of the v i values through the disk's xy location and the third through its size. Bubble charts can facilitate the understanding of social, economical, medical, and other scientific relationships. Bubble charts can be considered a variation of the scatter plot, in which the data points are replaced with bubbles. As the documentation for Microsoft Office explains, "You can use a bubble chart instead of a scatter chart if your data has three data series that each contain a set of values. The sizes of the bubbles are determined by the values in the third data series.".

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A bubble chart is a type of chart that displays three dimensions of data. Each entity with its triplet (v 1 , v 2 , v 3 ) of associated data is plotted as a disk that expresses two of the v i values through the disk's xy location and the third through its size. Bubble charts can facilitate the understanding of social, economical, medical, and other scientific relationships. Bubble charts can be considered a variation of the scatter plot, in which the data points are replaced with bubbles. As the documentation for Microsoft Office explains, "You can use a bubble chart instead of a scatter chart if your data has three data series that each contain a set of values. The sizes of the bubbles are determined by the values in the third data series.".

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