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

 * Area chart
 * Bar chart
 * Histogram
 * Box plot
 * Dispersion fan diagram
 * Graph of a function
 * Logarithmic graph paper
 * Heatmap
 * Line chart
 * Pie chart
 * Plotting
 * Radar chart
 * Scatterplot
 * Sparkline
 * Spiral graphic
 * Stemplot
 * Stripe graphic

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