Alternatives to scatterplot for visualisation for large samples I would like to visualise the following scatterplot in a different way that would make it more intuitive. The X axis is trading frequency and describes how many trades were conducted whereas the Yaxis describes the return on investment achieved with the transactions.
The sample is quite large and dominated by extreme values. Therefore I considered creating violin plots for each of the trading frequencies but that seemed a bit extreme.
Are there any other alternatives to this scatterplot that would allow me to visualise this more appealingly?


I would begin by considering a transformation - very like to be useful for the Y-axis, and possibly for the X too. Log if there are no zeroes or negative values, square root if there are no negative values (zeroes are fine), cube root if there are negative values.
After transformation, you could consider:

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*A scatterplot with some jitter and possibly transparency (probably not great).

*A violin or semi-violin plot.

*A hexbin plot (quite likely the best option).

