ABSTRACT
The scatterplot matrices are based on the technique of small multiples (Tufte 1990): small, thumbnail-sized representations of multiple images displayed all at once, which allows the reader to immediately, and in parallel, compare the inter-frame differences. A scatterplot matrix is a display of all pairwise bivariate scatterplots arranged in a p× p matrix for p variables. Each subplot shows the relation between the pair of variables at the intersection of the row and column indicated by the variable names in the diagonal panels (Friendly and Denis 2005).
