Thread: Graphing very large and very small values

I have to do a scatter graph and the data on both axes ranges from quite a few very small (0.002 to 0.13) values to quite a few very large (300 to 780) values, with a lot of values in between. There are no clear outliers.

I just wanted to get some ideas about how I would go about scaling the axes..it would be a written test answer.

Thanks

Originally Posted by GAdams

I have to do a scatter graph and the data on both axes ranges from quite a few very small (0.002 to 0.13) values to quite a few very large (300 to 780) values, with a lot of values in between. There are no clear outliers.

I just wanted to get some ideas about how I would go about scaling the axes..it would be a written test answer.

Thanks

It sounds like you could use a logarithmic scale. Or, to put it another way, plot log x and log y instead of x and y.