How to: Create Standard Charts in F#

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Applies to: Functional Programming

Authors: Tomas Petricek and Jon Skeet

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Summary: This section contains numerous ready to use snippets that construct common types of charts in F#.

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Contents

This section contains numerous examples of creating charts in F#. Each of the How To topics contains two versions of code with several variations. One version uses the FSharpChart library that is available as a free download. The second version uses the .NET Chart Controls directly. For more information about the two approaches as well as other technologies for drawing charts in F# visit the following page:

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How to: Create Bar and Column Charts

This article shows how to create bar and column charts in F#. The example visualizes the size of the populations of the continents.

How to: Create Pie and Doughnut Charts

This article shows how to create pie and doughnut charts in F#. The example visualizes the proportion of seats taken by individual parties in UK general elections.

How to: Create Line and Point Charts

This article shows how to create line and point charts in F#. The example draws a graph of a function, creates a scatter plot and draws a 2D spline defined by a function.

How to: Create Stock and Candlestick Charts

This article shows how to create stock and candlestick charts to visualize financial data in F#. It looks at how to draw charts, use dates as labels and how to specify the range of a chart.

How to: Create Boxplot Diagrams

This article shows how to create boxplot diagrams in F#. It looks at how to create a single boxplot from six statistics about an observation set as well as how to automatically create boxplots from observations.

Additional Resources

The examples in this section demonstrate how to create charts using the FSharpChart library as well as using the .NET Chart Controls directly. The following resources provide more information about the F# library:

The .NET Chart Controls library is mainly useful when creating charts as part of a Windows Forms application or when developing a charting library with some special features. For more information about using Chart Controls directly see:

To download the code snippets shown in this article, go to https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Chapter-6-Visualizing-Data-c68a2296

See Also

This article is based on Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#. Book chapters related to the content of this article are:

  • Book Chapter 4: “Exploring F# and .NET libraries by example” demonstrates how to create a simple charting application from scratch. This chapter is useful for learning F# programming when focusing on working with data.

  • Book Chapter 12: “Sequence expressions and alternative workflows” explains how to work with in-memory data sets in F# using sequence expressions and higher-order functions.

  • Book Chapter 13: “Asynchronous and data-driven programming” shows how to use asynchronous workflows to obtain data from the internet, how to convert data to a structured format, and how to chart it using Excel.

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