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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How can I extend BinCounts to work on Times and Dates?

I want to extend BinCounts to work on a list of times or dates, binning them by Day, Week, Hour of the Month, Day of the Year, etc... So given a list of times and a time bin spec, I need to calculate ...
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How can I trace a functional expression's evaluation visually?

Ok, so the goal is to visualize the execution of this expression foo /@ {3 + 1, bar /@ {1 + 2, {4 + 7}}} in the following fashion using nested rectangles with ...
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Is it possible to position ticklabels on the negative y axis on its right side?

Is it possible to position ticklabels on negative $y$ axis on its right side? Ticklabels on positive $y$ axis should remain as usual:
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Truncate TreeForm to show only the top

For some expressions, TreeForm may grow very long. I'm only interested in the top levels of the expression. How can I get the tree form of only the first levels an ...
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Using ListPointPlot3D to simulate 2D plots moving in time

I wrote a 1D solver for the heat equation $u_t=u_{xx}$, and I can animate the solution using normal ListPlot command, where the x-axis is the rod length, and the ...
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Strategies for Interfacing to web visualization libraries like Stanford's Data-Driven Documents (D3)?

There is a growing library of visualization tools being developed (eg on GitHub) - for Stanford's Data-Driven Documents. The implementation languages and standards are the usual W3C suspects: JS, ...
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Plotting vectors originating from the origin in 3D

I have an array of data with 3D elements. Ex: x = {{1,2,3}, {3,4,5}, {5,6,7}}. I want to show this data in 3 dimensions, such that each point in the space is shown ...
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Labelling ArrayPlot Charts

I have been using ArrayPlot to show off some information. Currently, my datasets are like so: ...
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How can I visualize features found in an image?

I am using Mathematica to explore the face detection feature of Core Image on Mac OS X Lion. To do this I have an Objective-C program which captures images from the iSight camera, runs face detection ...
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Visualizing several long lists of numerical information to see relative frequency

Mathematica has very powerful visualization techniques. However, I'm at a loss at how to best make the following chart readable. ...

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