New in 6.0: Data Visualization

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.

(RefLink[ListPlot, paclet:ref/ListPlot]) (modified) — multiple dataset support, plot markers, stems, etc.

(RefLink[ListLinePlot, paclet:ref/ListLinePlot]) — plot lines through lists of points

(RefLink[ListPlot3D, paclet:ref/ListPlot3D]) (modified) — now supports general irregular datasets, smoothing, etc.

(RefLink[ListPointPlot3D, paclet:ref/ListPointPlot3D]) — 3D point scatter plot

(RefLink[ListSurfacePlot3D, paclet:ref/ListSurfacePlot3D]) — surface reconstruction from 3D points

(RefLink[ListContourPlot, paclet:ref/ListContourPlot]), (RefLink[ListDensityPlot, paclet:ref/ListDensityPlot]) (modified) — now support irregular datasets, etc.

(RefLink[ListContourPlot3D, paclet:ref/ListContourPlot3D]) — 3D contour surfaces from 3D field values

(RefLink[ArrayPlot, paclet:ref/ArrayPlot]) (modified) — now supports symbolic values, sparse arrays, etc.

(RefLink[ReliefPlot, paclet:ref/ReliefPlot]) — simulated topographic relief

(RefLink[DateListPlot, paclet:ref/DateListPlot]) — date and time plots

(RefLink[GraphPlot, paclet:ref/GraphPlot]), (RefLink[GraphPlot3D, paclet:ref/GraphPlot3D]) — lay out a general graph

(RefLink[LayeredGraphPlot, paclet:ref/LayeredGraphPlot]) — draw a graph in a layered or hierarchical way

(RefLink[TreePlot, paclet:ref/TreePlot]) — draw a tree structure

(OrangeLink[New Data Visualization Options », paclet:guide/NewIn60GraphicsAndVisualizationOptions])