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 theorySet theory

• Venn diagram

• Karnaugh diagram

Descriptive geometryDescriptive geometry

• Isometric projection

• Orthographic projection

• Perspective (graphical)

Engineering drawingEngineering drawing

Technical drawing

• Graphical projection

• Mohr's circle

• Pantograph

• Circuit diagram

• Smith chart

• Sankey diagram

Systems analysisSystems 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

CartographyCartography

• Map projection

• Orthographic projection (cartography)

• Robinson projection

• Stereographic projection

• Dymaxion map

• Topographic map

• Craig retroazimuthal projection

• Hammer retroazimuthal projection

Biological sciencesBiological sciences

• Cladogram

• Punnett square

• Systems Biology Graphical Notation

Physical sciencesPhysical 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.