multi dimensional plot..

I am doing my project on classification of faults in transmission lines using support vector machines(SVM).I have simulated a no. of faults and sampled each one of them and stored them as excel sheets.Each excel sheet contains a single row and 10 columns (depending on sampling time) which represents a single fault...I have to plot the sampled data of all the faults..can anybody give me some idea about how to plot the data which contains a 1x10 array so that it looks like a single point in the graph.. thanx in advance..

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

What about boxplots with one box per time?

This way you'll capture the whole distribution of the 10 values and you can still have a compact 2D representation of the phenomenon.

Example 3 in the documentation can give you an idea.

On the X-axis the time and on the Y-axis the number of faults.

EDIT 12:57 GMT 00 15 March 2011

I wouldn't store the faults in excel at all. I would use a matrix and store each sample as a column. The resulting matrix can be fed to boxplot as it is.

Oleg

[Aditya]

sir, I want to show all the faults in the same graph...for comparison purpose...is there any way..

[Jan]

@Aditya: Yes, it is possible. If you post your code, we had a chance to see, why the values are not written to the same graph. Then a suggestion of the most likely tiny change is much easier than creating the complete program.

[Oleg Komarov]

@Aditya: did you try boxplot?