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 Area chart Bar chart Histogram Variable-width bar chart Box plot Dispersion fan diagram Graph of a function Logarithmic graph paper Heatmap Line chart Pie chart Variable-radius pie chart Plotting Radar chart Scatterplot Sparkline Spiral graphic Stemplot Stripe graphic Tape diagram
Set theory Venn diagram Karnaugh diagram
Descriptive geometry Isometric projection Orthographic projection Perspective (graphical)
Engineering drawing Technical drawing Graphical projection Mohr's circle Pantograph Circuit diagram Smith chart Sankey diagram
Systems analysis Binary decision diagram Control-flow graph Functional flow block diagram Information flow diagram IDEF N2 chart Sankey diagram State diagram System context diagram Data-flow diagram
Cartography Map projection Orthographic projection (cartography) Robinson projection Stereographic projection Dymaxion map Topographic map Craig retroazimuthal projection Hammer retroazimuthal projection
Biological sciences Cladogram Punnett square Systems Biology Graphical Notation
Physical sciences Free body diagram Greninger chart Phase diagram Wavenumber-frequency diagram Bode plot Nyquist plot Dalitz plot Feynman diagram Carnot Plot
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 Tag cloud, also known as word cloud
Statistics
Autocorrelation plot Bar chart Biplot Box plot Bullet graph Chernoff faces Control chart Fan chart Forest plot Funnel plot Galbraith plot Histogram Mosaic plot Multidimensional scaling np-chart p-chart Pie chart Probability plot Normal probability plot Poincaré plot Probability plot correlation coefficient plot Q–Q plot Rankit Run chart Seasonal subseries plot Scatter plot Skewplot Ternary plot Recurrence plot Waterfall chart Violin plot
Other Ulam spiral Nomogram Fitness landscape Weather map Predominance diagram One-line diagram Autostereogram Edgeworth box Lineweaver-Burk diagram Eadie-Hofstee diagram Population pyramid Parametric plot Causality loop diagram Ramachandran plot V model Sentence diagram Tree structure Treemapping Airfield traffic pattern diagram
See also List of information graphics software Data and information visualization
External links A periodic table of visualization methods. Speaking of Graphics.