English Explanatory Dictionary

scagnostic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A heuristic used to automatically analyse variables in a large dataset in order to determine which scatterplots are to be visualised in a scatterplot matrix.

Word forms

scagnostic scagnostics

Etymology

Coined by John W. Tukey as a blend of scatterplot + cognostic (another Tukey coinage).

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