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Categorical bubble plot

On 11-05-03 09:23 AM, Jurgens de Bruin wrote:
I would expect so, although having the bubbles overlaid on each other
may make it hard to see the results clearly.  Did you try it and see
what happens?
  In general it is better if you can provide us with full/reproducible
examples so we don't have to speculate.
  You might want to set the points partly transparent (e.g.
ggplot2.geom_point(alpha=0.5)).
  However, at this point I would also consider changing the way you are
plotting the data.  As I may have said previously (or may have been
tempted but kept my mouth shut), colour and size are at the bottom of
the "Cleveland hierarchy" -- that is, it's very hard to to reliably
interpret quantitative information on the basis of size and colour.  A
dot chart of some form would probably convey the information more
accurately.

   Ben Bolker