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Changing the color of bubbles in bubble plotsI've struggled recently with the colors of bubbles in bubble plots. I know that I can change it by using the Column Info in the data set and changing the Value Color there, but why can't I change the color directly in the Bubble Plot by using the 'Customize' menu?

When I use the Customize menu, the new color I select is not reflected in the bubble plot, but it does appear in the Script Window, and even when I relaunch the script the color does not change. Does the Fill Color in the Customize window refer to the color of the bubbles or to something else?

Thanks!Re: Changing the color of bubbles in bubble plotsIn general a bubble plot is displaying an average value rather than a single data point. Therefore the Value Color property does not get applied. If you assign a column to the Color role, then a blue-to-red colour gradient will be applied. To my knowledge, you are not able to change the color scheme of this gradient.

The gradient itself appears to be calibrated against the actual data range for the column, but the bubble plot is displaying average values. Therefore you may have a situation where the plot never shows the full potential colour range e.g. the raw data may go from 20 to 100 and the colour scale will reflect this, but the average values will only span 30 to 70, so you dont see the colour differentiation that you are looking for.