2D Plots (two-dimensional) plots allow you to plot one parameter against another parameter. 2D Plots have many shared formatting options as well as options that are specific for each plot type (please refer to the chapters below for the specific options of a specific plot type).

 

Please see a detailed description of each plot type below:

 

oDot Plots and Color Dot Plots

oDensity Plots and Contour Plots

oSurface Plots

oKinetics Plots

 

Note: Dot, Density, Contour, and Color Dot plots all bin your data into a discrete number of bins. Therefore, the dot size of these plots is related to the number of bins that the data is being divided into. Scatter plots do not bin your data, but put a symbol at the location of your data value. The symbol size is controlled by the Formatting preferences. The binned plots are a better option when viewing data sets containing large numbers of data points (i.e., >5000). Scatter plots are more useful when displaying smaller numbers of data points, where customization of the point shape and style are more important.

 

In all cases, statistics are derived from the raw underlying data, and not the displayed or binned values.