A type of data plot in which data are represented as dots related to a two-dimensional axis In a simple scatterplot values are displayed along two axes Values of the dependant variable are arrayed along the vertical (y) axis; values of the independent variable along the horizontal (x) axis A dot 6 units above 0 on the y axis might represent a household with six cars If that household had an income of $80,000 the dot and each tick mark along the x axis represented $ 10,000 the dot would be 8 tick marks from the intercept of the x and y axes at the bottom left of the scatterplot