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Questions on creating visualizations from functions or data using high-level constructors such as Plot, ListPlot, Histogram, etc.

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How to Plot inside a Do loop? [duplicate]

Why does this not give me any plots? It should give five plots. Do[Plot[x^n, {x, 1, 2}], {n, -2, 2}] If I remove the Plot from the Do, it works, but I want a series of plots. This is just an exam …
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How to change the axis on this ListPlot?

From the OP: Based on the helpful Comments and Answer above, here's all I needed to do to get the plot I wanted: z[0, c_] := c; z[n_, c_] := z[n - 1, c]^2 + c; ListPlot[Catenate[Table[{x, #} & /@ Ne …
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How to add data to an existing plot?

Sometimes I need to plot functions that take quite a while to calculate--and sometimes I need to replot in light of what I see on the plot. Is it possible to add points to a plot one by one, as they …
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How to change the axis on this ListPlot?

My bifurcation diagram almost works, but I can't figure out how to replace the point number on the horizontal axis with the x coordinate from my calculation. I have tried a whole bunch of things that …
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How to add data to an existing plot?

From the OP: This is just a demo of the Dynamic[] method Mike recommended above. This is exactly the effect I wanted to create for when I'm looking at a bifurcation point of a slooow calculation. ( …
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Can Mathematica produce zoomable plots, with embedded text of varying size?

I'm trying to figure out how do something on MMa that's fairly easy on Matlab. I some data points that each maps a numerical parameters to a point in 2D space. I need to plot the parameter values to t …
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Why is ListPlot[] so slow for coordinate pairs? Can we speed it up?

Is this an inherent limitation or the function, or are there options I could use to speed up the plotting in cases where I need to actually use coordinate pairs? …
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How to "inform" successive ContourPlot calculations?

I can think of ways to do this, but they involve having to write my own contour-plotting routine instead of using ContourPlot[]. Does anyone have a better idea than that? …
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Bug in ListPlot?

I want to check if this is a bug before I email WR about it. I can't get ListPlot[] to make scatter plots over a very small area: n = 40; c = I + RandomReal[1, n]*(2^-48)*Exp[I*Pi*2*RandomReal[1, …
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"Save Graphic As..." suddenly doesn't work

I suddenly can't create jpegs or pngs using the menu. I have not changed versions or operating systems lately, but the method I've used all along suddenly doesn't work. When I create a plot, left-cl …
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