We made a plot of total murders versus population and noted a strong relationship. Not surprisingly, states with larger populations had more murders. Keep in mind that many states have populations...

We made a plot of total murders versus population and noted a strong relationship. Not surprisingly, states with larger populations had more murders.

Keep in mind that many states have populations below 5 million and are bunched up. We may gain further insights from making this plot in the log scale. Transform the variables using the log10 transformation and then plot them.