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scagnostic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
scagnos-tic
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

scagnostics (plural)

Questions

What does scagnostic mean?
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.
Where does scagnostic come from?
Coined by John W. Tukey as a blend of scatterplot + cognostic (another Tukey coinage).

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