Collected thoughts on scatter-grams

A few days ago my online column appeared at InsideCounsel.com. It offers thoughts on scatter-plots (aka scatter-grams). They and their usual sidekick, trend lines, provide a compelling way to present a lot of data so that some message from the pattern comes across immediately. If you want to read the full column, published on January 16, 2011, click on this scatter-gram link.