yankee29 t1_j7tk82q wrote on February 9, 2023 at 8:20 AM

Hey everyone,

I recently tried to visualise some of my research findings in a classic two-dimensional plot in R. Problematically, some of my observations share the exact same values for both the X- and Y-dimension, leading to a perfect overlap in the graphic.

I would like to fix said overlap, making sure that all dots are clearly visible. Whilst this should not be too much of an issue, for some reason, I can't seem to find a workable solution that makes all dots visible.

Does anyone have any design ideas or similar how to plot my observations in a better way that makes all overlapping data points visible?

Many thanks in advance

PsychologicalEgg9377 t1_j9432iq wrote on February 19, 2023 at 2:16 AM

This is common. There's a technical term for it (jitter). There's a balance between making your datapoints visible and changing their values too much.