plot Creates a 2-D line plot of the data in Y versus the corresponding values in X A matrix/vector/timeseries, or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with an optional linespec Plot as multiple series Plots each series on the same plot Multiple vectors Plot as multiple series Plot as multiple series vs. first input Plots the second and later series against the first series on the same plot 3 or more vectors of the same size Plot as multiple series vs. first input plotyy Graphs with y tick labels on the left and right 4 vectors all of the same length of x1,y1,x2,y2. Y values can also be matrices. semilogx Creates x- and y-coordinates using a base 10 logarithmic scale on the x-axis and a linear scale on the y-axis A vector/matrix, or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with an optional linespec parameter semilogy Creates x- and y-coordinates using a linear scale on the x-axis and a base 10 logarithmic scale on the y-axis A vector/matrix, or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with an optional linespec parameter loglog Creates x- and y-coordinates using a base 10 logarithmic scale on the x-axis and the y-axis A vector/matrix, or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with an optional linespec parameter area Creates filled area plot for the values in Y against the x-coordinates X and fills the areas between the curves A matrix or vector, or 2 matrices or vectors of compatible size with an optional scalar base value errorbar Creates a line plot of the data in y and draws a vertical error bar at each data point 2, 3, 4, or 6 vectors or matrices all of the same size errorbar (horizontal) Horizontal error bar plot 2 to 4 vectors or matrices all of the same size errorbar (horizontal) plot3 3-D line graph using linear axes 2 to 4 vectors or matrices all of the same size comet Creates a comet plot of the data specified in y versus the index of each value 3 vectors/matrices of compatible size with an optional linespec stem Discrete sequence or 'stem' plot to display the data sequence, Y, as stems that extends from a baseline along the x-axis A matrix/vector or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with optional 'fill', followed by an optional linespec stairs Creates a stairstep graph of the elements in Y A matrix/vector, or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, with an optional linespec stem3 3-D stem plot to display discrete sequence data 3 vectors or matrices of compatible size with optional 'fill' followed by an optional linespec bar Creates a bar graph with one bar for each element in y A single matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size. Either choice with an optional scalar bar width barh Horizontal bar graph A matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size, with an optional scalar bar width bar3 3-D bar graph A matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size, with an optional scalar bar width bar3h Creates a 3-D horizontal bar graph with one bar for each element in y A matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size, with an optional scalar bar width bar (stacked) Vertical stacked bar graph A single matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size. Either choice with an optional scalar bar width bar (stacked) barh (stacked) Horizontal stacked bar graph A single matrix of Y values, or a vector of x values and matrix of Y values of compatible size, followed by an optional scalar bar width barh (stacked) histogram Creates a histogram (type of bar) plot for data grouped into bins An array with optional scalar number of bins or monotonically non-decreasing vector bin edges, or a categorical array with an optional cell vector or categorical vector of category names pareto Creates a pareto chart to display the values in the vector Y as bars drawn in descending order A vector of y values, with optional vector of x values or cell array of x labels of the same size plotmatrix Creates a matrix of subaxes containing scatter plots of the columns of X against the columns of Y 1 or 2 matrices with the same number of rows, followed by an optional linespec scatter Creates a scatter/bubble plot with circles at the locations specified by the vectors x and y A 2-column matrix or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, followed by an optional size parameter and optional color value scatter3 Creates a 3-D Scatter plot to display circles at the locations specified by the vectors X, Y, and Z 3 vectors of the same length, followed by an optional scalar or vector area parameter and optional scalar or vector color value scatter3 bubblechart Displays colored circular markers (bubbles) at the locations specified by x and y A 3-column matrix or 3 vectors of the same length, followed by an optional scalar or vector color value bubblechart3 Displays colored circular markers (bubbles) at the locations specified by x, y, and z in a three-dimensional plot box 4 vectors of the same length, followed by an optional scalar or vector color value polarbubblechart Polar bubble chart A 3-column matrix or 3 vectors of the same length, followed by an optional scalar or vector color value bubblecloud Creates a bubblecloud where bubble size is used to show the relationships between values A non negative numeric vector, with optional string vector of bubble labels and optional categorical vector for grouping bubbles swarmchart Displays a scatter plot where points are jittered in the x dimension based on an estimate of the kernel density in the y dimension for each unique x A 2-column matrix or 2 vectors/matrices of compatible size, followed by an optional size parameter and optional color value swarmchart3 Displays a scatter plot in a 3-D view where points are jittered in the x and y dimensions based on an estimate of the kernel density in the z dimension for each unique combination of x and y 3 vectors of the same length, followed by an optional scalar or vector area parameter and optional scalar or vector color value spy Visualize sparsity pattern 1 vector or matrix followed by an optional linespec, followed by an optional scalar marker size graph Plots an undirected graph A graph object graph digraph Plots a directed graph A digraph object digraph pie Creates a pie chart using the data in X. Each slice of the pie chart represents an element in X A vector or matrix, with an optional vector or matrix of "explode" parameters and an optional cell array of labels pie3 Creates a three-dimensional pie chart using the data in X. Each element in X is represented as a slice in the pie chart A vector or matrix, with an optional vector or matrix of "explode" parameters, and an optional cell array of labels histogram2 Creates a histogram (type of bar) plot for numeric data grouped into 2-D bins A matrix, or a vector of X values and matrix of Y values of compatible size, with an optional scalar or a two element vector polarplot Creates a line in polar coordinates, with theta indicating the angle in radians and rho indicating the radius value for each point A vector or matrix of angles, with an optional vector or matrix of radii of the same size, followed by an optional linespec polarhistogram Creates a histogram plot in polar coordinates by sorting the values in theta into equally spaced bins A vector or matrix of angles with an optional scalar for number of bins polarscatter Displays circles at the locations specified by the vectors TH and R, where TH and R are the same sizes A vector or matrix of angles, with an optional vector or matrix of radii of the same size, followed by an optional marker size compass Creates a compass plot with arrows emanating from origin Either a matrix or 2 vectors of compatible size followed by an optional linepsec geoplot Creates a line in a geographic axes with vertices at the latitude-longitude locations specified (in degrees) by the vectors lat and lon 2 numeric vectors (latitude and longitude), followed by an optional linespec geoscatter Creates colored circles in a geographic axes at the latitude-longitude locations specified (in degrees) by the vectors lat and lon 2 numeric vectors (latitude and longitude), followed by an optional numeric vector (area), followed by an optional numeric vector (color) or colorspec geobubble Creates a geographic bubble chart with filled circles (bubbles) representing the geographic locations Either 2 numeric vectors (latitude and longitude), followed by an optional numeric vector (size), followed by an optional categorical vector (color) or a table with two table subscripts contour Contour plot A matrix, 2 vectors and matrix, or 3 matrices of compatible size. Optionally add a scalar or vector of contour levels and a linespec contourf Filled contour plot A matrix, 2 vectors and matrix, or 3 matrices of compatible size. Optionally add a scalar or vector of contour levels and a linespec contour3 3-D contour plot A matrix, 2 vectors and matrix, or 3 matrices of compatible size. Optionally add a scalar or vector of contour levels and a linespec image Display image 1 RGB or indexed color array, or 2 vectors and an RGB or indexed color array of compatible size imagesc Scale data and display as an image 1 RGB or indexed color array, or 2 vectors and an RGB or indexed color array of compatible size pcolor Pseudocolor (checkerboard) plot 1 RGB or indexed color array, or 2 vectors, and an RGB or indexed color array of compatible size imshow Display image Grayscale, logical, truecolor or indexed image array (with colormap). Alternatively, an image file name may be used. heatmap Heatmap chart Table with two or three table subscripts, 2D numeric matrix, or 2 vectors and a 2D numeric matrix surf Display a matrix as a surface 1 to 4 x,y,z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size surfc Combination surf/contour plot 1 to 4 X,Y,Z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size surfl 3-D shaded surface with lighting A Z matrix, or X,Y,Z matrices followed by an optional light source direction vector. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size mesh 3-D mesh surface 1 to 4 X,Y,Z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size meshc Combination mesh/contour plot 1 to 4 X,Y,Z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size meshz 3-D mesh with curtain 1 to 4 X,Y,Z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size waterfall Waterfall plot 1 to 4 X,Y,Z, and color matrices of compatible size. Optionally replace X and Y matrices with vectors of compatible size ribbon Draw 2-D lines as ribbons in 3-D A Y matrix or X,Y matrices or vectors of the same size followed by an optional scalar width parameter slice Volumetric slice plot A 3 dimensional volume array with 3 vectors defining slice planes feather Feather plot A numeric array, or 2 numeric arrays of the same size, followed by an optional linespec quiver Quiver plot 2 or 4 numeric arrays of the same size, followed by an optional scalar value for scale, and an optional linespec quiver3 3-D quiver plot 4 numeric arrays of the same size, followed by an optional scalar value for scale and an optional linespec streamslice Streamlines in slice planes Either 2 or 4 3-dimensional arrays of the same size, followed by an optional scalar value for scale and an optional linespec streamline Streamlines from 2-D or 3-D vector data A cell array of double arrays produced by stream2 or stream3 fplot Easy to use function plotter One or two function handles followed by an optional vector defining a range of x values fplot3 Easy to use 3-D parametric curve plotter 3 parametric function handles followed by an optional domain range vector ezpolar Easy to use polar coordinate plotter A function handle followed by a optional vector range of theta values fcontour Easy to use contour plotter A 2-input function handle followed by an optional 2 or 4 element domain vector fimplicit Easy to use implicit plotter A 2-input function handle followed by an optional 2 or 4 element domain vector fimplicit3 Easy to use 3-D implicit plotter A 3-input function handle followed by an optional 2 or 6 element domain vector fsurf Easy to use 3-D colored surface plotter One or three 2-input function handles followed by an optional 2 or 4 element domain vector fmesh Easy to use 3-D mesh plotter One or three 2-input function handles followed by an optional 2 or 4 element domain vector wordcloud Creates a wordcloud chart from text data A categorical, string or cellstr array. stackedplot Creates a stacked plot of several variables with the common x-axis A table, timetable, a matrix/N-D array, or a vector and a matrix/N-D array of compatible sizes with more than one row. scatterhistogram Creates a scatter plot with marginal histograms Table with two or three table subscripts, or 2 numeric or categorical vectors parallelplot Parallel Coordinates plot A table or a numeric matrix, with more than one row Create Chart Interactively create and explore charts Creates a binned scatter plot which shows areas of different data density using colors Creates a box chart, or box plot, for the data Creates a density plot in a geoaxes from locations in degrees specified by the coordinate vectors lat and lon Creates an animated line with initial data points defined by x, y, and z 3-D Comet-like trajectories Creates a 3D cone plot showing velocity vectors Draws stream ribbons from vector volume data U, V, W Draws stream particles of a vector field Draws stream tubes from vector volume data U, V, W