8  Visualizing biological data

8.1 Visualizing single variables

8.1.1 Histograms

8.1.2 Barplots

8.1.3 Boxplots

8.1.4 ECDF plots

8.1.5 Kernel density plots

8.2 Visualizing 2 variables

8.2.1 Scatterplots

8.3 Visualizing many variables

8.3.1 Scatterplots

8.3.2 Ordinations