Plot types

Overview of many common plotting commands provided by Quartz.

Pairwise data

Plots of two variables, relating an x variable in the horizontal axis to a y variable in the vertical axis.

Scatter plot
Scatter plot

Plots a number of (x, y) points.

Statistical distributions

Plots of the distribution of at least one variable in a dataset. Some of these methods also compute the distributions.

Histogram
Histogram

Plot a distribution of numbers divided into discrete bins

Continuous distribution
Continuous distribution

Plot a continuous distribution of numbers using a Kernel density estimation (KDE)

Box and whiskers plot
Box and whiskers plot

PSummarize a distribution of numbers as a box and whiskers plot

Gridded data

Visualize data regularly spaced on a grid.

Contour plot
Contour plot

Plot the isolines from a real-valued function on a grid

Irregularly gridded data

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3D and volumetric data

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