Density where dots would overflow.
import { Hexbin } from "diagrammatic";Three thousand points as a scatter is a smear. Hexes keep the empty cells empty and let two neighborhoods announce themselves.
Illustrative data. Ride-hail pickups, Friday 20:00 to 02:00. n = 3,100.
Half the pickups pile into one core. A second, smaller core sits up and to the right of it. Two thin groups make up the rest, and the empty hexes between them are places nobody was picked up.
- Use it for
- Tens of thousands of points binned into honest cells.
- Watch out
- Bin size sets the story and empty cells matter; show the scale.