MATHEMATICA TUTORIAL

Some Special Plots

As discussed in "The Structure of Graphics and Sound", Mathematica includes a full graphics programming language. In this language, you can set up many different kinds of plots.

LogPlot[f,{x,x_min,x_max}]	generate a linear-log plot
LogLinearPlot[f,{x,x_min,x_max}]	generate a log-linear plot
LogLogPlot[f,{x,x_min,x_max}]	generate a log-log plot
ListLogPlot[list]	generate a linear-log plot from a list of data
ListLogLinearPlot[list]	generate a log-linear plot from a list of data
ListLogLogPlot[list]	generate a log-log plot from a list of data
DateListPlot[list]	generate a plot from a list of data with date coordinates
DateListLogPlot[list]	generate a linear-log plot from a list of data with date coordinates
PolarPlot[r,{t,t_min,t_max}]	generate a polar plot of the radius r as a function of angle t
SphericalPlot3D[r,{theta,min,max},{phi,min,max}]
	generate a three-dimensional spherical plot
RevolutionPlot3D[f,{t,t_min,t_max}]	generate a three-dimensional surface of revolution
BarChart[list]	plot a list of data as a bar chart
PieChart[list]	plot a list of data as a pie chart

Some special plotting functions.

Here is an exponential function.

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This generates linear-log and log-linear plots of the function.

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This gathers some financial time series data.

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This plots the financial data on linear and logarithmic scales.

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This uses RevolutionPlot3D to revolve a curve around the

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Here is a list of the first 10 primes.

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Here is a bar chart of the primes.

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This gives a pie chart.

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Some of the plotting functions available are defined in the Standard Extra Packages included with Mathematica.

ErrorListPlot[{{x₁,y₁,dy₁},...}]	generate a plot with error bars
BoxWhiskerPlot[list]	generate a box-and-whisker plot of data
ParetoPlot[list]	generate a Pareto plot of data
PairwiseScatterPlot[data]	plot pairs of coordinates for multivariate data