{"id":231,"date":"2007-12-13T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/12\/13\/visualizing-the-density-of-a-data-cloud\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:27:49","slug":"visualizing-the-density-of-a-data-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/12\/13\/visualizing-the-density-of-a-data-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Example: Visualizing the density of a data cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"I was working with a MATLAB user that had a large number of data points in the form of x,y,z triples. He was mostly interested in the density of these data points over the range of the data. At first he tried to just do a scatter plot, but there was too much data to comprehend. Instead, I had him do a few different visualizations using histograms and Sliceomatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=764&amp;objectType=File\">(download it here)<\/a>.\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438060001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\nOther videos have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nPractical example videos have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/practical-example\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/practical-example<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/12\/13\/visualizing-the-density-of-a-data-cloud\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/29e6dc64-b114-4910-9622-37df3d3c3da3\/fc06eb6c-3d8f-4b1f-a5fe-f3cdc1ec608c\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">4:31<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>I was working with a MATLAB user that had a large number of data points in the form of x,y,z triples. He was mostly interested in the density of these data points over the range of the data. At first&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/12\/13\/visualizing-the-density-of-a-data-cloud\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}