List of graphical methods

This is a list of graphical methods with a mathematical basis. Included are diagram techniques, chart techniques, plot techniques, and other forms of visualization.

There is also a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics.

Simple displays

• Box plot
• Graph of a function
• Graph paper
  • Logarithmic graph paper
• Heatmap
• Histogram
  • Bar chart
• Pie chart
• Plotting
• Scatterplot
• Skewplot
• Sparkline
• Stemplot
• Radar_chart

Set theory

• Venn diagram
• Karnaugh diagram

Descriptive geometry

• Isometric projection
• Orthographic projection
• Perspective (graphical)

Engineering drawing

• Technical drawing
• Mohr's circle
• Pantograph
• Circuit diagram
• Smith chart
• Sankey diagram

Systems analysis

• Binary decision diagram
• Control flow graph
• Functional flow block diagram
• IDEF
• N2 chart
• State diagram
• System context diagram

Cartography

• Map projection
• Orthographic projection (cartography)
• Robinson projection
• Stereographic projection
• Dymaxion map
• Topographic map
• Craig retroazimuthal projection
• Hammer retroazimuthal projection

Biological sciences

• Cladogram
• Systems Biology Graphical Notation

Physical sciences

• Free body diagram
• Greninger chart
• Phase diagram
• Wavenumber-frequency diagram
• Bode plot
• Nyquist plot
• Dalitz plot
• Feynman diagram

Business methods

• Flowchart
  • Workflow
• Gantt chart
• Growth-share matrix (often called BCG chart)
• Work breakdown structure
• Control chart
• Ishikawa diagram
• Pareto chart (often used to prioritise outputs of an Ishikawa diagram)

Conceptual analysis

• Mind mapping
• Concept mapping
• Conceptual graph
• Entity-relationship diagram

Statistics

• Autocorrelation plot
• Bar chart
• Biplot
• Box plot
• Control chart
• Forest plot
• Funnel plot
• Galbraith plot
• Histogram
• Multidimensional scaling
• np-chart
• p-chart
• Probability plot
  • Normal probability plot
• Poincaré plot
  • Probability plot correlation coefficient plot
• Q-Q plot
• Rankit
• Run chart
• Seasonal subseries plot
• Scatter plot
• Scree plot
• Ternary plot
• Recurrence plot
• Waterfall chart

Other

• Ulam spiral
• Nomogram
• Fitness landscape
• Weather map
• Predominance diagram
• One-line diagram
• Autostereogram
• Edgeworth box
• Lineweaver-Burke diagram
• Eadie-Hofstee diagram
• Population pyramid
• Parametric plot
• Causality loop diagram
• Ramachandran plot
• V model
• Sentence diagram
• Tree diagram
• Treemapping
• Airfield traffic pattern diagram

External references

• A periodic table of visualization methods.
• Speaking of Graphics.