The scatter plots below were made with the same data…​ we just swapped the x- and y-axes.

  • The first scatter plot shows an exponential relationship: the number of Covid Infections as a function of Days

  • The second scatter plot shows a logarithmic relationship: Days as a function of Infections

Days → Infections Infections → Days

A scatter plot showing the exponential growth of covid infections in MA

A scatter plot showing the exponential growth of covid infections in MA, reflected over the line y=x

1 What question might you answer from this graph?

2 What question might you answer from this graph?

What do you Notice? What do you Wonder?

3 This third scatter plot is our current dataset. Which of the scatter plots above does it resemble? Days → Infections Infections → Days

Per-Capita GDP → Median Life Expectancy

A scatter plot showing the growth of median life expectancy as per-capital GDP increases

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