Drawing publish-quality scatterplots

Drawing a publication quality scatterplot doesn't require stacking up all that we've seen until now. It's usually the other way round. Telling a good history means sticking with the right tools and not deploying unnecessary ones. Unnecessary usually is synonymous to mixed signals. The history you need to tell with your plot may be a short or long one, may request few or many devices. This decision is up to you, but there are general things to look for that improves almost any scatterplot. 

All graphics brought until now by this chapter may be considered good results if those were made only for exploratory purposes. However, on the other hand, they can be considered unfinished work when it comes to publish quality standards-there is still a pretty run to make.

Jeff Leek stresses that defaults in ggplot2 are pretty enough that might trick you into thinking the graph is production ready by using only defaults. Each context will request a different amount of...