Scatter plots are glorious. Of all the major chart types, they are by far the most powerful. They allow us to quickly understand relationships that would be nearly impossible to recognize in a table ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.

The graph is a scatter plot, entitled "Rainfall and Plant Growth." The horizontal X axis shows Average Rainfall ranging from zero to four thousand, in units of millimeters per year, in increments of ...