June 24, 2024 — I have worked on many data science tools, including Ohayo and Grapher, because I love science and I love the web.

So I was excited to read about Observable's new open source library Plot.

Today I added Plot to Scroll.

You can now make scatterplots using no code.

A tutorial is below.

Step 0: Install Scroll Locally or try the Web Version

npm install -g scroll-cli

Step 1: Generate a scatterplot with 1 word

scatterplot

Step 2: Add a title

scatterplot
 title The Iris Dataset

Step 3: Add your data

scatterplot
 title The Simpson Family
 x age
 y height
 data
  name,age,height
  Homer,39,183
  Bart,10,137
  Lisa,8,120

Step 4: Load your data from disk

scatterplot
 title The Planets
 data planets.csv
 x yearsToOrbitSun
 y moons
 radius diameter
 label id

Step 5: Everything all at once

scatterplot
 title The Planets in our Solar System
 data planets.csv
 subtitle Jupiter and Saturn have a lot of moons. Only 1 planet has life.
 caption Data from Wikipedia.
 x yearsToOrbitSun
 y moons
 fill diameter
 radius diameter
 label id
 symbol hasLife