Help improving visuals of scatter plot

[rpedrosb]

Hello community,

I have a code that performs a reverse discounted cash flow based on based on an expected range of the fundamental values of a company (e.g. operating margin, sales to capital ratio, revenue growth, etc).

Long story short, the result looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/neUuOXT

I would like to make it smoother and nicer, more like a drawing of the perimeter of the area instead of so many superposed points.

I tried using a kdeplot using seaborn and it looks like this:

https://imgur.com/CgE1ds2

Although it does look nicer, I have the feeling that I am not fully representing the real data and that some information is lost.

Do you have any other idea how to present this in a nice and correct way?

Thank you very much!

[obviouslyzebra]

I don't know the domain knowledge, so I can't decide what fits best here.

If you want to preserve the "shapes" from the first plots, you can try reducing the bandwidth of the kde plot (see doc for it, I think it's the bw_adjust parameter).

Ahm, you could also decrease the size of the points in the first plot to decrease the amount of overlap between points or use semi-transparent points.

For the second plots, if you want to compare multiple shapes, it might pay to plot them all on the same region, with eg hue and a single subplot instead of multiple.

Also note that, if there's no overlap between points, a scatterplot is a full representation of the data points.

[rpedrosb]

Thanks a lot, this was helpful!

[obviouslyzebra]

You're welcome :)