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Re: Frustrated by 2 Data Plotting problems [message #76270 is a reply to message #76269] Fri, 27 May 2011 16:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Kenneth P. Bowman writes:

> Plotting 4M points is not necessarily a dumb thing. A
> 1000 x 1000 pixel window (quite reasonable on current
> displays) is 1M pixels. So plotting 4M points will
> result in some overlap, but it might also reveal
> patterns in data that are difficult to see with
> binned data

I'd say if you data was spread out evenly on
a 1000x1000 grid, you would be better off
forgetting about the plot and going to get
a beer. :-)

Cheers,

David



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