Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information"
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ListPointPlot3d to visualize points close to a manifold
I have a large set of points that are close to manifold which I want to show in a ListPointPlot3D. Using part of the data set illustrates this
there are fewer ...
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Comparing 2 Data Sets in a Single Plot
I have 2 data sets, data1 and data2 with large (in the thousands) amounts of data
and I want to compare them
in a plane. They ...
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How can I set the background color to the Popupmenu?
I want to set the Background color of a PopupMenu to blue. I already searched in the documentation center, but I didn't find any ...
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BarChart with BarOrigin->Left: axis on top
This question is somewhat related to this one.
Let's say this is the BarChart i want to make:
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Anyone recognize this heatmap? [closed]
Anyone know the origins of the attached heatmap/daylight overlay? I see it on the Mathematica homepage all the time and I even saw it once on Wolfram|Alpha launch video. I know there are ways to ...
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3D view of a route shown on a map
You should have already seen such a thing, specially in documentaries about ancient life: the movement of a tribe is shown on an ancient map along a route with a dashed arrow. I want to do the same ...
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How can I create facetted histograms?
I love Mathematica, and I would love to be able to use it for all of my data analysis tasks, but there is one type of analysis which I find almost trivial in R, and I have no idea how to approach in ...
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Plotting graphics as ASCII plots
I'm occasionally in a situation where I have to use Mathematica on the terminal. I'd like to visualize the solutions I get from NDSolve, but when I use ...
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Gravatars/identicons with Mathematica
The default avatar/identicon is based on an MD5 hash of your e-mail address. With some e-mail providers (e.g., GMail) the address [email protected] is still ...
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Visualizing the difference between two sequences (strings)
I'm trying to develop a way of comparing two sequences (probably originally text, such as text writing or source code, possibly converted to lists). As a familiar example, consider the revisions ...
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How can I make a heatmap of a days in year?
I know Mathematica has a ListPlot for time series but does it have a function for visualizing a list of dates as a heat map like this:
This idea is from D3, check it out here.
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Transition between graphs
I want to visually demonstrate the manipulations made to a graph. For instance, I have a graph g where using the command ...
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How to implement hive plot for graphs in Mathematica?
I'm trying to implement a version of the hive plot advocated in [Kryzywinski, et al., 2012]. There are many examples of such graphs on the author's webpage.
It would be good enough for me to have ...
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Spherical density plot of data set
I have a somewhat large number of 3-dimensional unit vectors ( ~ 100 000 unit vectors), and I am trying to visualize their distribution. First thing I tried was ...
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ColorData[“VisibleSpectrum”] is wrong?
I am trying to visualize the visible spectrum using the built-in ColorData["VisibleSpectrum"] function which "colors based on light wavelength in nanometers". But I ...
