Graph Builder: polar plot☑ cool new feature
☐ could help many users!
☐ removes a „bug“
☐ nice to have
☐ nobody needs it
Add polar plot as an option to GraphBuilder.
many other plotting tools have such an option:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/plotting-in-polar-coordinates.html
https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PolarPlot.html
To keep the GraphBuilder Interface as it is, one could "hide" the polar plot mode under Scale Type - similar to Geodesic, where an even more complicated projection is used to convert the coordinates to x/y values.
The idea:
The user selects R and Phi values for the X and Y axis and selects polar plot in one of the Scale Type menus (the other Scale Type is changed automaticaly).
As a result, the values are converted to x/y coordinates and a polar grid is used.
Alternative - if this is not possible:
The user directly loads x/y coordinates and selecting polar plot from the Scale Type menu.
This changes the grid to r/phi.
Difficulty: how to define the major/minor grid steps?
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Data Exploration and VisualizationRe: Graph Builder: polar plot - Status changed to: AcknowledgedHi @hogi, thank you for taking the time to submit this idea! We will review your request and keep you updated on its status.
Re: Graph Builder: polar plotI just noticed that there is another wish with a simlar title: Polar-plots/idi-p/147599
Both wishes are independent, because they ask for different types of plots.
Definitely, there is a lot in common:
- values are arranged in a circular way
- one variable is used as "radius"
But there are significant differences:
- Polar-plots/idi-p/147599 asks for a Radar Plot / Kiviat Diagram:
where an arbitrary number of discrete categories/ratings are arranged in a circle instead of a normal x/y line chart.
The wish here asks for a polar plot where the second variable besides radius is the angle phi, which runs from 0 to a final value (e.g. 180°, 360°, > 360°)
examples of polar plots in other statistical/plotting tools:
https://www.medcalc.org/manual/polarplot.php
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/polarplot.html
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=polar+plot
https://octave.sourceforge.io/octave/function/polar.html
A polar plot could look like a Kiviat diagram, but it doesn't have to:
It is used when a value depends on an angle. Then the value is plottet as radius versus angle.
This makes it much easier to understand the dependency:
Mathematica uses PolarPlot to plot the dependent variable (radius) versus the independent variable (angle) - but doesn't show the radial, angular grid.
I hope that Jmp will do better 
Re: Graph Builder: polar plotancestor of this wish: Radiation pattern
