Statistical visualization

Mathematica provides us with a wide variety of statistical plotting functions. Let's take a look at a few of them:

• Distribution shapes

  • Histogram

  • SmoothHistogram

  • Histogram3D

  • PairedHistogram

  • DensityHistogram and so on

• Charting

  • PieChart

  • BubbleChart

  • BarChart

  • SectorChart

  • PairedBarChart

  • 3D versions of some of these charts

• Miscellaneous

  • Gauges, such as AngularGauge, HorizontalGauge, VerticalGauge, BulletGauge, ClockGauge, and so on

  • Financial charts, such as CandlestickChart, TradingChart, FinancialIndicator, KagiChart, RenkoChart, and so on

To visualize the distribution shapes of empirical data, Mathematica provides different kinds of histogram-plotting functions. SmoothHistogram provides a smooth estimation of the shape, whereas Histogram, Histogram3D, and PairedHistogram give a discrete shape (which is often better to understand empirical data). DensityHistogram is a plot for visualizing spatial data density.

The most common charting functions are listed next. We have already used SectorChart...