Building on Mathematica's strengths in large-scale data handling, numerical optimization, and geometric computation, Version 6.0 brought a new level of automation to data visualization—with major new original algorithms for graph layout, immediate surface reconstruction, automated labeling, seamless handling of unstructured data, geometrically driven interpolation, and automatic date plotting—as well as major innovations in automated aesthetics.

ListPlot (modified) — multiple dataset support, plot markers, stems, etc.

ListLinePlot — plot lines through lists of points

ListLogPlot  ▪  ListLogLinearPlot  ▪  ListLogLogPlot  ▪  ListPolarPlot

ListPlot3D (modified) — now supports general irregular datasets, smoothing, etc.

ListPointPlot3D — 3D point scatter plot

ListSurfacePlot3D — surface reconstruction from 3D points

ListContourPlot, ListDensityPlot (modified) — now support irregular datasets, etc.

ListContourPlot3D — 3D contour surfaces from 3D field values

ArrayPlot (modified) — now supports symbolic values, sparse arrays, etc.

ReliefPlot — simulated topographic relief

DateListPlot — date and time plots

GraphPlot, GraphPlot3D — lay out a general graph

LayeredGraphPlot — draw a graph in a layered or hierarchical way

TreePlot — draw a tree structure

New Data Visualization Options »

PlotMarkers  ▪  InterpolationOrder  ▪  RegionFunction  ▪  MeshFunctions  ▪  ...