briandk/Quartile-frame-Scatterplot

The goal is to make the axes tell a better story about the data. This is done by turning the axes into quartile plots (cleaner boxplots). Inspired by The Visual Display of Quantitative Information # by Edward R. Tufte

Quartile-Frame Scatterplot with ggplot2

Code By	Mikhail Y. Popov
email	michaelupopov@gmail.com
web	http://www.mpopov.com

Inspired by The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

The goal is to make the axes tell a better story about the data. This is done by turning the axes into quartile plots (cleaner boxplots).

Usage Example

Only x & y are required, everything else is optional.

qsplot(x=mtcars$wt,
       y=mtcars$mpg,
       main="Vehicle Weight-Gas Mileage Relationship",
       xlab="Vehicle Weight",
       ylab="Miles per Gallon",
       font.family="Gill Sans") # alternatively: font.family="Times New Roman"

Sample Plot

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