9  Appendix: List of Plots

This appendix contains a non-exhaustive list of some standard and field specific plots, linking to relevant resources.

9.1 Standard

• Scatter plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/scatter.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/scatter-plot/
  • In R with ggplot2: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/geom_point.html
  • R Graph Gallery: https://r-graph-gallery.com/scatterplot.html
  • In Python with matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.scatter.html
  • Python Graph Gallery: https://python-graph-gallery.com/scatter-plot/
• Line plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/line.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/line-chart/
  • In R with ggplot2: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/geom_path.html
  • R Graph Gallery: https://r-graph-gallery.com/line-plot.html
• Histogram
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/histogram.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/histogram/
• Bar plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/barplot.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/bar-chart/ and https://datavizproject.com/data-type/bar-chart-horizontal/#
• Violin plot
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/violin-plot/
• Boxplot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/caveat/boxplot.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/box-plot/
• Ridgeline plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/ridgeline.html
• Raincloud plot
• Stacked bar chart
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/stacked-bar-chart/
• Grouped bar chart
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/grouped-bar-chart/
• Lollipop chart
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/lollipop.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/lollipop-chart/
• Dumbbell plot
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/dumbbell-plot/
• Strip plot
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/strip-plot/
• Swarm plot
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/beeswarm-blot/
• Heatmap
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/heatmap.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/heat-map/
• Parallel plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/parallel.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/parallel-coordinates/
• Bubble plot
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/bubble.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/bubble-chart/
  • General info and gallery for Bubble-based Heat Map variant: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/bubble-based-heat-map/
• Venn diagram
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/venn.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/venn-diagram/
• Upset plot
• Sankey diagram
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/sankey.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/sankey-diagram/ and https://datavizproject.com/data-type/alluvial-diagram/
• Treemap
  • General info: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/treemap.html
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/treemap/

9.2 Field Specific Plots

• Quilt plot
• Confusion matrix
• ROC curve
• Precision - Recall curve
• Waterfall plot
• Forest plot
• Caterpillar plot
• Kaplan-Meier curve
• Cumulative incidence curve
• Volcano plot
• Manhattan plot
• Rainfall plot
• Dot plot
• Repeated Measures plot
• QQ plot
• Spider plot
• Swimmer plot
• Enrichment plot
• MA diagram
• Dimensionality Reduction plots (e.g., PCA, t-SNE, UMAP)
• Circos plot
  • Utilizes a chord diagram: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/chord-diagram/ or https://datavizproject.com/data-type/non-ribbon-chord-diagram/
  • General info on chord diagrams: https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/chord.html
• Biomedical Knowledge graph
  • A type of network graph: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/network-visualisation/ and https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/network.html
• Sequence Logo plot
• Footprint plot
• Tornado diagram
  • General info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/butterfly-chart/
• Tree diagram and Dendrogram
  • Dendrogram general info and gallery: https://datavizproject.com/data-type/dendrogram/ and https://www.data-to-viz.com/graph/dendrogram.html