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 to show solid bodies using volumetric rendering?
Note: This question was asked when Mathematica 8 was latest release. Version 9 has built-in support for volume rendering through Image3D.
There's an example on ...
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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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Creating ghost trail effects
Does anyone know how to create a ghost trail effect? For a simple example look at this screenshot:
You can find the actual animation here. What I would ultimately like to see it happen is to make ...
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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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Visualizing a Complex Vector Field near Poles
I've been playing around with a visualization technique for complex functions where one views the function $f: \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ as the vector field $f: \mathbb{R^2} \rightarrow ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
