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What is the meaning of Jittering in Orange3? What function does it serve?


What is the meaning of Jittering in Orange3? What function does it serve? In the Scatter Plot widget there is a slide bar option called 'Jittering', what does it do?


Solution

  • From Wikipedia:

    jitter is the deviation from true [...] signal

    The use in Orange, as this article neatly sums up, refers to random plotted perturbations of true data so as to more clearly reveal the density of discrete/nominal data points.

    The same plot without (left) and with (right) jittering:

    two random scatter plots without (left) and with (right) jittering applies