COMPOSITE_DATA Data vs Data for a List of Items Over a Range of Times

COMPOSITE_DATA Data vs data for a list of items over a range of times

"Composite" data is similar to "Data vs Data" except for the vital difference that:

• Each curves contains (x,y) data for the list of items selected, in order, at a particular time.
• Therefore the number of curves = the number of states selected, not the number of items
• And the number of points in each curve = the number of items selected.

This plotting mode is useful for displaying the variation of a quantity across space in a model over a range of times, as the examples below show.

IMPORTANT: The order in which points are written in composite curve is the order in which they are defined, unless subsequently sorted.

• If you screen-pick items they will appear in the order picked up to a limit of 1000 items
• If you select by area, polygon on "all" they will appear in ascending label order

Sort by: sorting data points.

When points are picked by screen area, or some other unordered means, their order is usually "wrong". You can use the Sort by options to correct this, and these are described in Sort By: Sorting Data Points in Composite Plots.