Re: ListContourPlot
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- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 06:00:06 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8/3/12 at 4:16 AM, nkormanik at gmail.com (Nicholas Kormanik) wrote: >I've been attempting to create a contour plot within Mathematica >8.04. >In case the files do not make it through to you, the data file is an >Excel .xls file with three columns, X,Y,Z. Z in the contour plot >would be shown by contours or a gradient of colors. >The key sticking points are to get the data into Mathematica, and then to >create the plot. Loading the data into Mathematica can be done using Import. Assuming the data file is on your desktop, the following will read the data into Mathematica SetDirectory@ToFileName[$HomeDirectory, "Desktop"]; data = Import["20201_23405_50502.xls", "XLS"][[1]]; The first line simply sets the working directory to the directory containing the data file. The second imports the data to Mathematica. The [[1]] at the end selects the first worksheet in the spread sheet. Once the data is imported, a contour plot can be made by simply doing ListContourPlot[data] However, this does not create a plot that looks anything like what you showed as the result of plotting this data in another program. Doing ListPlot3D[data] shows your data seems to be a background surface with random spikes ListDensityPlot[data] confirms that the impression given by ListPlot3D and might be the most useful way to look at this data set.