# Scatter panel
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 9.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
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The scatter panel shows an X/Y scatter plot for table data with a simpler interface than other graphing panels. Unlike the graph panel, the scatter panel does not require the data to be in a time series. The scatter panel requires a table formatted dataset with two or more numeric columns of data.

One of these can be assigned to the X axis. One or more can be assigned to a series of Y axis values and the resulting data plotted as a series of dots. Each series can optionally also show a regression line using one of a number of statistical best fits.

**Creating a scatter panel**

The following procedure describes how to create a scatter plot using the scatter panel. For this example, we will assume that there is data, as in the following table called `HEIGHT` with three columns of numerical values, `Age`, `Boys`, and `Girls`, showing the average height of boys and girls by age.


| Age | Boy's Height | Girl's Height | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  5  |  109.7  |  109.5  | 
|  6  |  115.6  |  115.4  | 
|  7  |  121.1  |  120.8  | 
|  8  |  126.3  |  126  | 
|  9  |  131.3  |  131.3  | 
|  10  |  136.2  |  137.1  | 
|  11  |  141.2  |  143.2  | 
|  12  |  147  |  148.7  | 
|  13  |  153.6  |  152.6  | 
|  14  |  159.9  |  155.1  | 
|  15  |  164.4  |  156.7  | 
|  16  |  167.3  |  157.6  | 
|  17  |  169  |  158  | 
|  18  |  170  |  158.3  | 
|  19  |  170.8  |  158.6  | 

**To create a scatter plot with the scatter panel**

1. In your Grafana dashboard, choose **Add Panel**.

1. For the Query, write a query that will return the data needed. In this case, you would use a query such as `SELECT * FROM HEIGHT`.

1. Select the **Scatter** visualization.

This will create a scatter plot, using the first column as the X axis, and the other numeric columns as Y axes.

**Configuration options**

The scatter panel provides the following four custom configuration options.
+ **X Axis** – You can choose which field to use as the X axis, as well as extents and title and display information for the axis.
+ **Y Axis** – You can choose which fields to display on the Y axis, including display options for each field, and extents and title information for the axis. You can also choose to display a regression line for each field. See the following information for more details on regression line configuration.
+ **Legend** – You can turn a legend for the panel on or off, as well as choose the size of the text in the legend.
+ **Display** – You can set other options for the chart, including grid color and border style.

**Regression line configuration**

Each Y axis dataset can display a line, in addition to the individual dots. There are five options for the line type.
+ **None** – Do not display a regression line.
+ **Simple** – Display a regression line that connects the dataset points.
+ **Linear** – Display a straight line, using the least-squares, best-fit method.
+ **Exponential** – Display an exponential best-fit regression line.
+ **Power** – Display a power best-fit regression line.