Responding to the Cities in Full chart I posted in “The outlier” yesterday, commenters pointed out that there’s a better way to graph the relationship between two variables than by overlaying two line graphs: a scatterplot. Commenter Ward 1 Guy created just such a graph.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.