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This scatterplot encodes x = number of victims (quantitative), y = area (nominal), and color = gender (categorical). Author: Jessica Liu, Data: Traffic Collision Data from 2010 to Present.

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Column Name	Variable Type
Date Occured	continuous (temporal)
Time Occured	continuous (temporal)
Area Name	nominal
Reporting District	discrete
Victim Age	discrete
Victim Sex	nominal
Victim Sex	nominal
Premise Description	nominal
Premise Code	discrete
Address	nominal
Cross Street	nominal
Location	continuous