Bubble chart
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Acres
100
150
200
Crates per acre, 2025
Apples
Cherries
Peaches
Pears
Plums
Fruit
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
Crates
Size each dot in a scatter by a third measure
and it becomes a bubble chart. Scale circles by
area, never diameter, and expect readers to
underestimate the big ones anyway. Use size
for context, not precise comparison. Karsten
judged circles and squares sized by
area harshly:
“Both circle and square require the more or
less tedious computation of square roots and
repay this labor with inaccurate and
ambiguous results” (Karl G. Karsten,
Charts and
Graphs
, 1923, pp. 79–80).
Also called:
bubble plot
From:
Scatter plot
Data as of 02:45 UTC on 21 Oct 2026
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