diff --git a/packages/visualizations-react/stories/Chart/AxisAssemblages/AxisAssemblages.stories.tsx b/packages/visualizations-react/stories/Chart/AxisAssemblages/AxisAssemblages.stories.tsx
index 015f6625..387717dd 100644
--- a/packages/visualizations-react/stories/Chart/AxisAssemblages/AxisAssemblages.stories.tsx
+++ b/packages/visualizations-react/stories/Chart/AxisAssemblages/AxisAssemblages.stories.tsx
@@ -705,8 +705,8 @@ const ScatterPlotChartArgs: Props<DataFrame, ChartOptions> = {
     data: {
         loading: false,
         value: [
-            {label: 'id-0', x: -10, y: 20}, 
-            {label: 'id-1', x: 20, y: -10}, 
+            {label: 'id-0', x: -10, y: 20},
+            {label: 'id-1', x: 20, y: -10},
             {label: 'id-2', x: 5, y: 2},
             {label: 'id-3', x: 7, y: 3}
         ],
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ function generateNormalDistribution(n: number, xMean = 0, xStdDev = 1, yMean = 0
     const points = [];
     for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
       points.push({
-        label: `id-${i}`, 
+        label: `id-${i}`,
         x: randomNormal(xMean, xStdDev),
         y: randomNormal(yMean, yStdDev),
       });
@@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ const ScatterplotNormalDistribChartArgs: Props<DataFrame, ChartOptions> = {
             {
                 label: "Serie 1",
                 type: ChartSeriesType.Scatter,
-                valueColumn:"x",
-                indexAxis:"y",
+                valueColumn:"y",
+                indexAxis:"x",
                 backgroundColor: COLORS.blue,
             },
         ],
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ const ScatterplotNormalDistribChartArgs: Props<DataFrame, ChartOptions> = {
                 title: {
                     display: true,
                     text: "Horizontal axis"
-                }, 
+                },
                 beginAtZero: true
             },
             y: {
@@ -808,6 +808,6 @@ const ScatterplotNormalDistribChartArgs: Props<DataFrame, ChartOptions> = {
     },
 };
 export const ScatterplotNormalDistribChart = {
-    args: ScatterplotNormalDistribChartArgs, 
+    args: ScatterplotNormalDistribChartArgs,
     parameters: {chromatic: { disableSnapshot: true }}
 };
diff --git a/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/datasets.ts b/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/datasets.ts
index 507e8822..38c0f16f 100644
--- a/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/datasets.ts
+++ b/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/datasets.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ export default function toDataset(df: DataFrame, s: ChartSeries): ChartDataset {
         return {
             type: 'scatter',
             label: defaultValue(s.label, ''),
-            data: df.map((entry) => ({ x: entry[s.indexAxis], y: entry[s.valueColumn] })),
+            data: df.map((entry) => ({ x: entry[defaultValue(s.indexAxis, 'x')], y: entry[defaultValue(s.valueColumn, 'y')] })),
             datalabels: chartJsDataLabels(s.dataLabels),
             backgroundColor: singleChartJsColor(s.backgroundColor),
             pointRadius: defaultValue(s.pointRadius, 5),
diff --git a/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/types.ts b/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/types.ts
index 349a87c9..ebc21f10 100644
--- a/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/types.ts
+++ b/packages/visualizations/src/components/Chart/types.ts
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ export interface Scatter {
     type: ChartSeriesType.Scatter;
     valueColumn: string;
     label?: string;
-    indexAxis: string;
+    indexAxis?: 'x' | 'y';
     /** Point color */
     backgroundColor?: Color | Color[];
     pointRadius?: number;